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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Frightful Peregrinates" - "Frightful Finds Sam".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Which of the eyases first attacks Chup when he returns to the aerie in the beginning of "The Eyases Get on Wing"?
(a) Oksi.
(b) Lady.
(c) Drum.
(d) Duchess.

3. Who is the falconer who has brought peregrines back to the east by breeding them in captivity and freeing them to the wild, according to the narrator in "Disaster Leads to Survival"?
(a) Jon Wood.
(b) John Burroughs.
(c) Skri Thomas.
(d) Heinz Meng.

4. 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) Fold.
(b) Crop.
(c) Creel.
(d) Giblet.

5. Who is the president of the New York Electric Company that Jon Wood gives the address to the children so they can write to him about the electric poles?
(a) Lon Herbert.
(b) Heinz Meng.
(c) Leon Longbridge.
(d) Peter Westerly.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was My Side of the Mountain published?

2. Where does Frightful hide out from the thunderstorm by the farm in "Frightful Peregrinates"?

3. About how old was Frightful when she first saw Sam Gribley?

4. What prey does Chup drop down to the aerie at the end of "The Eyases Get on Wing"?

5. Who lives at Woodchuck Lodge?

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