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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 did Christina bring in Chapter 9?

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

3. What did the falconers drive in Chapter 3?

4. When White took her hawk, how many were there in European forests?

5. How long after the author set out with the falconers in Chapter 3, did they see a goshawk kill a pheasant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Helen attended a country fair in Chapter 22. What gamut of emotions did she go through at first? How did she make peace and become comfortable with being at the fair and being around so many people?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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