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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) May 5, 1934.
(b) June 23, 1933.
(c) April 11, 1935.
(d) March 16, 1936.

2. Where had the goshawk been bred that the author was fetching in Chapter 5?
(a) Galway.
(b) Near Glasgow.
(c) Near Belfast.
(d) Dublin.

3. Where did the author's father die?
(a) At church.
(b) St. Thomas' Hospital.
(c) St. Andrews' Hospital.
(d) At home.

4. In Chapter 9, what creature did the author compare the hawk to when the author said the hawk seemed alien?
(a) Snake.
(b) Rat.
(c) Lizard.
(d) Iguana.

5. What birds flew up from the roof when Helen took Mabel to the campus where she worked in Chapter 13?
(a) Goldfinches.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) White doves.
(d) Wrens.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many books did White have to learn about hawks from, not including the "Encyclopedia Britannica"?

2. In Chapter 1, when did the author say that she ended up in the Brecklands?

3. From where did the Fifth Earl of Bedford import falcons?

4. How much of the author's life was spent in an incubator when she was a newborn?

5. In Chapter 9, how many days pass as the author had the hawk almost constantly on her fist?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author describe her hotel room in Chapter 5?

2. Why was White pleased with himself at the beginning of Chapter 13?

3. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

4. Where was White's cottage located?

5. In Chapter 10, how did the author's hawk react to the hood and why?

6. What did a old female goshawk look like that was brought to a bird-of-prey center where Helen worked at one time?

7. What terrible sin did White commit when training his bird?

8. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

9. What was important to do when training a hawk?

10. Why did the schoolboys he taught look up to White?

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