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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 11, how men men did Helen hide from behind a tree trunk?

2. In Chapter 13, how many years had Helen been a Cambridge Fellow?

3. In Chapter 9, how many days pass as the author had the hawk almost constantly on her fist?

4. In Chapter 10, how many days and nights had the author planned to keep the hawk awake?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?

2. How did the author describe the landscape she loved very much?

3. What did the author have to do to train her hawk?

4. What was bating?

5. How did the author describe her hotel room in Chapter 5?

6. What was important to do when training a hawk?

7. In Chapter 2, what did the waiter do when Helen did not eat?

8. Why did the schoolboys he taught look up to White?

9. How did the author describe how her meeting with the falconer looked in Chapter 5?

10. Why was the author terrified in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author told about her father's death. How did her father's death affect her and how did it change her life?

Essay Topic 2

Helen's thought about death changed from when she was a child. What caused Helen's outlook on death to change and how did this change in point of view affect her?

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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