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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Frightful Feels the Call to the Sky" - "Destiny is on Wing" and Afterword.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Frightful take shelter from a coming storm in Plymouth, North Carolina?
(a) An abandoned barn.
(b) A cave on a cliffside.
(c) A church bell tower.
(d) A roof eave of a house.

2. When did Thomas Paine travel to France on his first trip?
(a) 1781.
(b) 1656.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1818.

3. What killed off much of the peregrine falcons in the 1940s through the 1960s, according to the narrator in "The Earth Calls Frightful"?
(a) Automobiles and airplanes.
(b) DDT and pesticides.
(c) Pollution from factories.
(d) Electric poles.

4. What are Oksi's two needs when she is six days old?
(a) Sleep and water.
(b) Water and food.
(c) Food and warmth.
(d) Warmth and milk.

5. What happens when Frightful attacks Mole in "Frightful and Oksi Run the Show"?
(a) Mole is shot by Sam.
(b) He falls into the millpond.
(c) He is carried to the bridge.
(d) Frightful is shot by Sam.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what kind of hide does the author of the Forward describe making bitwits and other falconry tools in the Forward?

2. What term refers to a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion in birds?

3. Which of the eyases first attacks Chup when he returns to the aerie in the beginning of "The Eyases Get on Wing"?

4. With whom had Sam caught Skri leaving a cave last June, according to the narrator in "A Pal Finds a Pal"?

5. Why is Sam unable to keep Frightful?

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