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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 3, how many men were left behind at the end of the day to wait for their goshawks?

2. In Chapter 13, when did Helen say that her college job would end?

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

4. In Chapter 11, what type of bird feather did Helen see by the path?

5. What time did White's bird step onto his fist and feed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, how did the author's hawk react to the hood and why?

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

4. Why did the schoolboys he taught look up to White?

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

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

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

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

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

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 2

White had mixed feelings about his success in getting Gos to fly in Chapter 15. Why did White had mixed feelings about the event and what in his past contributed to his struggle with success?

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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