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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. From what time did the word jess originate?

2. In 1932, how many people showed up for an excursion sponsored by the Southern Railway for a moonlit walk along the South Downs?

3. During what century were goshawks described as sociable and familiar?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are sparrowhawks and goshawks alike and unalike?

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

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

5. What was important to do when training a hawk?

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

7. What was White's childhood like?

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

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

10. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

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 spent a fair amount of time relating information about T.H. White. Why did the author spend so much time discussing White's life and how did she identify with him?

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