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

2. Before Mabel, where did the author buy her falconry bells?

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

4. In Chapter 25, where did Helen say that she met Erin?

5. Who once wrote that falconry was a balancing act between wild and tame?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Helen remember about lobstering with Erin's family?

2. Why did Helen find it odd that she could hunt?

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

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

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

6. What happened when Helen's father photographed an unfamiliar plane when he was nine or ten?

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

8. Why did White believe that death waited for Gos when the bird got free?

9. What was the falconer's trick that was used to stop a hawk from feeling that she had been robbed of her prize?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The author did not reveal her name until about a third of the way through the book. Why didn't the author reveal her name until then, and what was the significance of the author not revealing her name until partway through the book?

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