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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color was the skin of the author's hawk near her beak?

2. Where was the cottage where White lived located?

3. Where had the goshawk been bred that the author was fetching in Chapter 5?

4. During what century were goshawks described as sociable and familiar?

5. When did the author's father take a picture of the Beatles sitting at a cafe table on the Champs-Elysees?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was the author terrified in Chapter 3?

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

3. What was bating?

4. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

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

6. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

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

8. What was White's childhood like?

9. What did the author have to do to train her hawk?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

White felt reborn after lying in the "grave" he made for himself to wait for Gos to return. What was the "grave" and why did it help White discard some things from his past and help him become a new man?

Essay Topic 2

Helen had to deal with the "loss" of Mabel at the end of the book. Why did she have to leave Mabel and what did that experience reveal about Helen's ability to cope with loss at that point in time?

Essay Topic 3

A piece of reindeer moss was important to the author. What did the reindeer moss symbolize for her and why?

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