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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 12, what color bucket was a man using to clean the bottom of a racing boat?

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

3. In Chapter 1, when did the author say that the winds blew the ground into a yellow cloud that obscured the sun?

4. Where was the cottage where White lived located?

5. In Chapter 10, how many days and nights had the author planned to keep the hawk awake?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are sparrowhawks and goshawks alike and unalike?

2. How did Mabel change once she attained her flying weight?

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

4. Why did White overfeed his hawk?

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

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

7. What was White's childhood like?

8. Why did the author say that everything about the hawk was turned to hunt and kill?

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

10. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

White felt reborn after lying in the "grave" he made for himself to wait for Gos to return. What was the "grave" and why did it help White discard some things from his past and help him become a new man?

Essay Topic 3

Helen had to deal with the "loss" of Mabel at the end of the book. Why did she have to leave Mabel and what did that experience reveal about Helen's ability to cope with loss at that point in time?

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