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

2. When was the Jesuit spy Robert Shoutwell terrified he'd be found out because he kept forgetting his falconry terms?
(a) 18th century.
(b) 16th century.
(c) 15th century.
(d) 17th century.

3. How old was T.H. White when he had been a schoolmaster at Stowe for five years?
(a) 30.
(b) 29.
(c) 33.
(d) 31.

4. How long was the Goshawk?
(a) 8 to 10 inches.
(b) 11 to 13 inches.
(c) 19 to 24 inches.
(d) 12 to 16 inches.

5. What was White's pseudonym for his racy novels?
(a) David Wyatt.
(b) James Aston.
(c) William Baker.
(d) Peter Andrews.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the date at the beginning of Chapter 4?

2. What did the author watch over and over again after her father died?

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

4. How long after the author set out with the falconers in Chapter 3, did they see a goshawk kill a pheasant?

5. When was a pine forest planted in Evelyn's Travelling Sands?

(see the answer key)

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