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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 Mabel's flying weight?

2. How old was the author when she first saw a trained goshawk?

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

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

5. In how many days did the author once fly a Harris hawk free?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

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

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

6. Where was White's cottage located?

7. How did the author describe the cyclist who stopped to speak to her when she was walking Mabel?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Helen's thought about death changed from when she was a child. What caused Helen's outlook on death to change and how did this change in point of view affect her?

Essay Topic 2

The author did not reveal her name until about a third of the way through the book. Why didn't the author reveal her name until then, and what was the significance of the author not revealing her name until partway through the book?

Essay Topic 3

Helen and White had different ways of facing their fears. How were their methods for dealing with fears different, and what was lost or gained because of the way they handled fear?

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