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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Forward, "Frightful Takes Off" - "The Wilderness Tests of the Eyases".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what other birds does Frightful travel in the trailer in "Frightful Takes Off"?
(a) A great horned owl and a red-tailed hawk.
(b) A sharp-shinned hawk and a prairie falcon.
(c) A bald eagle and a golden eagle.
(d) Two swans.

2. What prey do Frightful and Mole fight over in "Frightful Goes to Falcon School"?
(a) A pigeon.
(b) A snake.
(c) A dove.
(d) A rabbit.

3. What word from "Frightful Takes Off" refers to an insect making a shrill sound, such as a cricket or grasshopper?
(a) Ruinating.
(b) Stridulating.
(c) Caulating.
(d) Undulating.

4. Why is Frightful unable to see in the opening montage of the novel?
(a) She has been blinded by sunlight.
(b) She is wearing a falconer's hood.
(c) She has been sprayed with pesticides.
(d) She has been blinded by injury.

5. What does Chup feed the eyases when he introduces Frightful to them in "Frightful Goes to Falcon School"?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A rat.
(c) A rabbit.
(d) A duck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mountain range does Frightful see after Alice has freed her in "Frightful Takes Off"?

2. When was My Side of the Mountain published?

3. What term refers to a comb-like structure of blood vessels belonging to the choroid in the eye of a bird?

4. Why do the eyases stare at the rabbit that Frightful brings to the aerie in "The Eyases Get on Wing"?

5. What kind of falcon is Frightful?

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