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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are bird emotions described in "Frightful Peregrinates"?
(a) Nonexistent.
(b) Lingering and steady.
(c) Fluctuating but constant.
(d) Intense but short.

2. Why do the eyases stare at the rabbit that Frightful brings to the aerie in "The Eyases Get on Wing"?
(a) Because the rabbit is clearly diseased.
(b) Because the rabbit is still covered in fur.
(c) Because the rabbit is still alive.
(d) Because they are not accustomed to eating rabbit.

3. What name does Susan Wood give to Frightful?
(a) Desiny.
(b) Frightful.
(c) Samantha.
(d) Hope.

4. From what animal does Frightful save Lady in "The Wilderness Tests the Eyases"?
(a) A snake.
(b) A fox.
(c) A bear.
(d) An eagle.

5. What term refers to a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion in birds?
(a) Crop.
(b) Fold.
(c) Creel.
(d) Giblet.

6. What is the name of Alice's pig that she bred?
(a) Piggie.
(b) Crystal.
(c) Emma.
(d) Mary.

7. What is the dog called that Alice runs past in "Frightful Takes Off"?
(a) Mole.
(b) Rupert.
(c) Bate.
(d) Jax.

8. What term refers to the semi-translucent membrane that forms an inner eyelid on birds?
(a) Nictitating membrane.
(b) Lactating membrane.
(c) Ocular Inundation.
(d) Ocular stridulation.

9. What animal steals a rabbit from Frightful in "Frightful Peregrinates"?
(a) A bald eagle.
(b) A golden eagle.
(c) A snow owl.
(d) A great horned owl.

10. When was My Side of the Mountain published?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1972.

11. About how old was Frightful when she first saw Sam Gribley?
(a) One week old.
(b) Two weeks old.
(c) Three weeks old.
(d) Five weeks old.

12. What term refers to the shedding of old feathers in order to make way for new growth?
(a) Molting.
(b) Nictitating.
(c) Stridulating.
(d) Helinating.

13. How has Frightful been injured when Jon Wood finds her in "Disaster Leads to Survival"?
(a) She has been shot by a hunter.
(b) She has been electrified on a transformer.
(c) She has broken her wing from a fall from a cliff.
(d) She has broken a leg fleeing a net.

14. Who does Jon Wood call about the smoke he has seen at Jebb Harper's cabin in "Disaster Leads to Survival"?
(a) Sam Gribley.
(b) Leon Longbridge.
(c) Peter Westerly.
(d) John Burroughs.

15. What color down coats do the peregrine falcon chicks that Frightful is introduced to in "Frightful Goes to Falcon School" have?
(a) Black.
(b) White.
(c) Gray.
(d) Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does Sam hunt squirrels?

2. How far does Frightful travel in ten minutes to reach Sam's mountain when she is freed by Jon Wood in "Frightful Finds Sam"?

3. Who lives at Woodchuck Lodge?

4. Where does the author of the Forward describe going to meet Al Nye during his falconry days?

5. When was the Forward to Frightful's Mountain written?

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