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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. When was a pine forest planted in Evelyn's Travelling Sands?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1920s.
(d) 1930s.

2. In Chapter 12, where is the man from that Helen speaks to when she is out walking with her hawk?
(a) Germany.
(b) Kazakhstan.
(c) Turkey.
(d) France.

3. What did the author watch over and over again after her father died?
(a) A Family at War.
(b) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
(c) Within These Walls.
(d) Father, Dear Father.

4. What was the name of White's dog?
(a) Red.
(b) Brutus.
(c) Brownie.
(d) Rover.

5. What was Mabel's flying weight?
(a) 2 pounds 2 ounces.
(b) 3 pounds 1 ounce.
(c) 3 pounds 4 ounces.
(d) 2 pounds 1 1/2 ounces.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird did the author hear outside her window at the beginning of Chapter 7?

2. How long was the Goshawk?

3. What did Christina bring in Chapter 9?

4. In Chapter 10, how many days and nights had the author planned to keep the hawk awake?

5. In Chapter 4, what color was the cover of the notebook White was writing in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are sparrowhawks and goshawks alike and unalike?

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

3. How did the author describe the landscape she loved very much?

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

5. What was White's childhood like?

6. How did the author describe the cyclist who stopped to speak to her when she was walking Mabel?

7. What journey did White's goshawk take to him?

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

9. How did Helen feel as she left home at the beginning of Chapter 11?

10. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

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