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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 14, what did a woman do that made Helen furious?

2. How long was the Goshawk?

3. What did Christina bring in Chapter 9?

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

5. What color streaked the front of the author's hawk like teardrops in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

2. What was bating?

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

4. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

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

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

7. What was a "tiring"?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A piece of reindeer moss was important to the author. What did the reindeer moss symbolize for her and why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 21, Helen felt torn between two worlds. What two worlds was she caught between and how did she manage to remain in the world of humans, rather than become a hawk?

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