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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 was the name of White's dog?

2. When the author was a child, where was her favorite den?

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

4. In Chapter 3, what color eyes did the goshawks have?

5. How long after Gos arrived at White's place did White take him to a farmhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are sparrowhawks and goshawks alike and unalike?

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

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

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

6. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

7. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

8. Why was the author terrified in Chapter 3?

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

10. Where was White's cottage located?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

White seemed to empathize with the journey his hawk took to get to him. In what way did the journey of the hawk symbolize what happened to White when he was sent away for an education?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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