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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. How far did Mabel have to jump in Chapter 12 to get food Helen held in her glove?
2. Where was the cottage where White lived located?
3. In Chapter 13, when did Helen say that her college job would end?
4. In Chapter 3, how many men were left behind at the end of the day to wait for their goshawks?
5. At the beginning of Chapter 12, what did Helen give Mabel to eat?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the author have to do to train her hawk?
2. What was bating?
3. In Chapter 10, how did the author's hawk react to the hood and why?
4. How did Simon Latham describe goshawks in 1615?
5. What terrible sin did White commit when training his bird?
6. How did Christina react when Helen asked her to help train Mabel?
7. How did the author describe how her meeting with the falconer looked in Chapter 5?
8. How did the author describe the cyclist who stopped to speak to her when she was walking Mabel?
9. Where was White's cottage located?
10. Why was White pleased with himself at the beginning of Chapter 13?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
White made many mistakes with his hawk. Why was training so difficult for White, and how did his personality and inner conflicts make the training difficult?
Essay Topic 2
White seemed to empathize with the journey his hawk took to get to him. In what way did the journey of the hawk symbolize what happened to White when he was sent away for an education?
Essay Topic 3
White had mixed feelings about his success in getting Gos to fly in Chapter 15. Why did White had mixed feelings about the event and what in his past contributed to his struggle with success?
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