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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 did White paint his woodwork?

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

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

4. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. In Chapter 11, what type of bird feather did Helen see by the path?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are sparrowhawks and goshawks alike and unalike?

2. Why was the author terrified in Chapter 3?

3. How did Christina react when Helen asked her to help train Mabel?

4. How did Mabel change once she attained her flying weight?

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

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

7. Where was White's cottage located?

8. What was White's childhood like?

9. In Chapter 2, what did the waiter do when Helen did not eat?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

White gained fellowship through his falconry. What did the author gain from her falconry and how did it help her with the issues that she was struggling with?

Essay Topic 2

Helen attended a country fair in Chapter 22. What gamut of emotions did she go through at first? How did she make peace and become comfortable with being at the fair and being around so many people?

Essay Topic 3

The author told about her father's death. How did her father's death affect her and how did it change her life?

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