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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 22, what color was Greg's barbary falcon?
2. How large is the bell that the author attaches at the base of Mabel's tail in Chapter 15?
3. In Chapter 24, what did the doctor look like that Helen went to see?
4. What color feathers did the bird have that the author saw in a glass box in an art gallery in Chapter 19?
5. In Chapter 19, what prey did Mabel catch after the author flushed it for her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What die Helen see in the dry valley in Chapter 28?
2. Why did White make a trap in Chapter 16?
3. Why did White cry during his birthday in India when he received a wooden play-castle?
4. How was hunting in Maine different from hunting in England?
5. What happened when White left Gos unattended for a moment in Chapter 16?
6. What did Helen remember about lobstering with Erin's family?
7. How did Mabel begin to act when she came into yarak?
8. How did Helen feel when she got ready to give the eulogy for her father at the memorial service?
9. What was the new house like that Helen moved to in Chapter 20?
10. Why did Helen find it odd that she could hunt?
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 made many mistakes with his hawk. Why was training so difficult for White, and how did his personality and inner conflicts make the training difficult?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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