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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 bird did the author see in a glass box in an art gallery in Chapter 19?

2. in Chapter 15, in what direction from the city did Stuart and Helen go to fly Mabel?

3. In Chapter 28, how many pairs of trousers did Helen say she had torn to shreds when hawking?

4. In Chapter 21, what did Helen see walkers gathered around as she drove back to the house after a hunt?

5. In Chapter 21, when did a rabbit virus arrive in Britain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Mabel begin to act when she came into yarak?

2. What die Helen see in the dry valley in Chapter 28?

3. Why wasn't Helen depending solely on a bell to track Mabel when she flew free?

4. How cold was it at the beginning of Chapter 26?

5. How was Mabel acting in Chapter 25 when Helen took her up the hill?

6. What happened when Helen chased Mabel across a lawn in Chapter 25?

7. How did Helen get ready to go to an art gallery in Chapter 19?

8. How did Mabel start to act when he had been eating nothing but quail for a week?

9. Why were bells used in falconry and where were they placed on the bird?

10. What type of education did White give Wart in his book "The Sword in the Stone"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

White seemed to empathize with the journey his hawk took to get to him. In what way did the journey of the hawk symbolize what happened to White when he was sent away for an education?

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 23, Helen reached a turning point. What was her turning point and did it help or hinder her grieving process?

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