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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) Fluctuating but constant.
(c) Lingering and steady.
(d) Intense but short.

2. How much money does Bate say Frightful is worth in "Frightful Finds the Enemy"?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $5,000.
(c) $25,000.
(d) $10,000.

3. What prey does Frightful catch when she first goes out hunting with Sam in "Frightful Finds Sam"?
(a) A pigeon.
(b) A gopher.
(c) A rat.
(d) A rabbit.

4. When was the Forward to Frightful's Mountain written?
(a) 1973.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1999.

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

6. The lineman from the electric company tells Jon Wood that he has been given orders to change the wires on how many transformers in "Hunger is Frightful's Teacher"?
(a) Three.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Six.
(d) Nine.

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

8. What must Drum do before eating the food brought to him by Frightful in "The Eyases Get on Wing"?
(a) Drink water.
(b) Cast a pellet.
(c) Preen his feathers.
(d) Remove the fur.

9. Where is the church steeple that Frightful sets out for to roost for the night in "Frightful Peregrinates"?
(a) Westerly.
(b) Beaver Corners.
(c) Morgan's Corners.
(d) Henderson.

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

11. Where does Mole cross a bridge when escaping the home of the Van Sandtfords?
(a) Anderson.
(b) Henderson.
(c) Delhi.
(d) Gilboa.

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

13. Who is the student who writes a letter telling the president of the New York Electric Company that her father sued because he was bit by a bull in "Hunger is Frightful's Teacher" (87)?
(a) John.
(b) Andrew.
(c) James.
(d) Peter.

14. With what other birds does Frightful travel in the trailer in "Frightful Takes Off"?
(a) A great horned owl and a red-tailed hawk.
(b) A bald eagle and a golden eagle.
(c) Two swans.
(d) A sharp-shinned hawk and a prairie falcon.

15. What do the Van Sandtfords rename Mole?
(a) Destiny.
(b) General.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Roger.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Frightful unable to see in the opening montage of the novel?

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. What are the cages for the predatory birds at Jon Woods' house called?

4. Where did the author of the Forward attend a falconry program in upstate New York?

5. In the early days of what month do the first of the migrating falcons and hawks return to the Catskill Mountains in "Frightful Finds Sam"?

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