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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. What was the name of the country fair that Stuart asked Helen to attend in Chapter 22?
2. When Helen set Mabel free in Chapter 18, what type of tree did Mabel perch in?
3. In Chapter 24, after Helen awoke, how much time did she have before despair crashed in?
4. In Chapter 18 after forty minutes, how far were Helen and Christina from Helen's house because of a traffic accident?
5. In Chapter 22, what color was Greg's barbary falcon?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Helen feel when she got ready to give the eulogy for her father at the memorial service?
2. Why did Helen put a rabbit out of its misery in Chapter 21?
3. What was the new house like that Helen moved to in Chapter 20?
4. Why wasn't Helen depending solely on a bell to track Mabel when she flew free?
5. How did Mabel begin to act when she came into yarak?
6. What birds did Helen and her friends take to a country fair?
7. What happened when Helen's father photographed an unfamiliar plane when he was nine or ten?
8. Why did Helen find it odd that she could hunt?
9. How was hunting in Maine different from hunting in England?
10. How was Mabel acting in Chapter 25 when Helen took her up the hill?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
The author saw the jesses she created as symbols. What did the jesses symbolize to the author and why?
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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