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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. In Chapter 7, what did the author feed her hawk when she took off the hood from the hawk's head?

2. How much sleep did White have when he was first training his hawk?

3. How much weight could make a difference in how Helen's merlins flew?

4. What did the author mention that White drank at the beginning of Chapter 10?

5. What did Christina bring in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author describe how her meeting with the falconer looked in Chapter 5?

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

3. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

4. Why did the author say that everything about the hawk was turned to hunt and kill?

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

6. What artwork did the author describe in Chapter 6?

7. Where had Helen traveled with an Uzbek student?

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

9. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

10. What was a "tiring"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

The author told about her preference for falcons at one time in her life. Why did the author first fly falcons and why did she later decide to fly a goshawk? What made her change her mind about the goshawk?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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