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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what did Helen give Mabel to eat?
(a) Cockerel chick.
(b) Snake.
(c) Pigeon.
(d) Rabbit.

2. In Chapter 3, how many men were left behind at the end of the day to wait for their goshawks?
(a) 1.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. What bird did the author hear outside her window at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Chaffinch.
(b) Robin.
(c) Crow.
(d) Wren.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the landscape the author had come to love very much?

2. What color grey were Goshawks in the air?

3. In Chapter 1, when did the author say that the winds blew the ground into a yellow cloud that obscured the sun?

4. In Chapter 4, what color was the cover of the notebook White was writing in?

5. If White had known what he was doing, how long would it have taken to fly his bird free?

(see the answer key)

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