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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the author's father take a picture of the Beatles sitting at a cafe table on the Champs-Elysees?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1962
(d) 1965.

2. How much sleep did White have when he was first training his hawk?
(a) 6 hours in 6 days.
(b) 3 hours in one day.
(c) 12 hours in three days.
(d) 15 hours in 7 days.

3. When White took her hawk, how many were there in European forests?
(a) 100,000.
(b) 150,000.
(c) 200,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. How far did Mabel have to jump in Chapter 12 to get food Helen held in her glove?
(a) 10 inches.
(b) 5 inches.
(c) 7 inches.
(d) 4 inches.

5. In Chapter 4, who authored the book White read about falconry?
(a) Captain GIlbert Blaine.
(b) Gage Earle Freeman.
(c) Philip Glasier.
(d) Gerald Lascellas.

6. What birds flew up from the roof when Helen took Mabel to the campus where she worked in Chapter 13?
(a) White doves.
(b) Wrens.
(c) Goldfinches.
(d) Pigeons.

7. In Chapter 9, what time did an unhappy wail come from a pram outside the author's window?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

8. During what century were goshawks described as sociable and familiar?
(a) 17th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 16th.
(d) 14th.

9. What did the hawk's name mean?
(a) Flirtatious.
(b) Precious.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Loveable or dear.

10. In Chapter 12, what color bucket was a man using to clean the bottom of a racing boat?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Silver.

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

12. In Chapter 6, how much did White's rented cottage cost him weekly?
(a) 8 shillings.
(b) 6 shillings.
(c) 4 shillings.
(d) 5 shillings.

13. In Chapter 11, what ruins did White walk to with his hawk?
(a) St. Catherine's chapel.
(b) An old farmhouse.
(c) An old barn.
(d) St. Thomas the Martyr chapel.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When the author fell asleep and dreamed in Chapter 9, where did she find herself?

2. According to the author in Chapter 1, in what season might someone be able to see a goshawk on a still, clear morning?

3. In Chapter 1, when did the author say that she ended up in the Brecklands?

4. Where was the cottage where White lived located?

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

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