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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "There are Eggs and Trouble" - "Sam Battles Bird Instincts".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Chup when Frightful comes into his life?
(a) Six years old.
(b) Four years old.
(c) Two years old.
(d) Nine years old.

2. 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) Ocular wind.
(c) Thermal wind.
(d) Inducive wind.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers the two twisted membranous strips joining the yolk to the ends of the shell of a bird?

2. What must Drum do before eating the food brought to him by Frightful in "The Eyases Get on Wing"?

3. Why what nickname do the kids in town call Sam?

4. Who wrote the Forward to Frightful's Mountain?

5. With what does Sam hunt squirrels?

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