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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color grey were Goshawks in the air?
(a) Pigeon grey.
(b) Concrete grey.
(c) Raincloud grey.
(d) Slate grey.

2. What did the author watch over and over again after her father died?
(a) A Family at War.
(b) Father, Dear Father.
(c) Within These Walls.
(d) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

3. When was a pine forest planted in Evelyn's Travelling Sands?
(a) 1920s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1930s.
(d) 1950s.

4. What did a waiter bring Helen the night her father died?
(a) Double chocolate brownie with ice cream.
(b) Gourmet chocolates.
(c) German chocolate cake.
(d) Hot fudge sundae.

5. How long after the author set out with the falconers in Chapter 3, did they see a goshawk kill a pheasant?
(a) 30 minutes.
(b) 15 minutes.
(c) 20 minutes.
(d) 40 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the author's father die?

2. How old was T.H. White when he had been a schoolmaster at Stowe for five years?

3. In Chapter 3, how many men were left behind at the end of the day to wait for their goshawks?

4. In Chapter 6, how much did White's rented cottage cost him weekly?

5. From where did the Fifth Earl of Bedford import falcons?

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