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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. What term refers to a comb-like structure of blood vessels belonging to the choroid in the eye of a bird?
(a) Nictitating membrane.
(b) Pecten oculi.
(c) Ocular Stridulation.
(d) Ocular membrane.

2. What kind of tree does the narrator describe Frightful setting out for in the opening montage of the novel?
(a) A willow tree.
(b) A hemlock tree.
(c) An ash tree.
(d) An oak tree.

3. What term refers to wind that varies with height due to a balance between the coriolis and pressure-gradient forces in the atmosphere?
(a) Vacular wind.
(b) Inducive wind.
(c) Thermal wind.
(d) Ocular wind.

4. Which of the eyases is the first one that Frightful learns to feed?
(a) Duchess.
(b) Lady.
(c) Oksi.
(d) Drum.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how many days old are the eyases when they grow their second, heavier coat of natal down?

2. What color down coats do the peregrine falcon chicks that Frightful is introduced to in "Frightful Goes to Falcon School" have?

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

4. What kind of falcon is Frightful?

5. What does Chup feed the eyases when he introduces Frightful to them in "Frightful Goes to Falcon School"?

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