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

2. What did the falconers drive in Chapter 3?

3. In Chapter 14, what types of birds did Mabel seem to look at in a book?

4. What did White whistle in Chapter 13 to his hawk?

5. In Chapter 14, by the fourth day of training, how far is Mabel flying to Helen?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was the author terrified in Chapter 3?

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

5. How are sparrowhawks and goshawks alike and unalike?

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

7. In Chapter 3, why did some men stay behind when their companions left for the day?

8. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

9. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

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 made many mistakes with his hawk. Why was training so difficult for White, and how did his personality and inner conflicts make the training difficult?

Essay Topic 2

Mabel began rebelling against the hood. The aim of this less to examine what the hood meant to the hawk, how that meaning changed, and why the hood symbolized something different for the bird as training progressed.

Essay Topic 3

The author saw the jesses she created as symbols. What did the jesses symbolize to the author and why?

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