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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Bate and Spud use as bait to catch Frightful in "Frightful Finds the Enemy"?
(a) A duck.
(b) A rabbit.
(c) A lizard.
(d) A cat.

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

4. What do Jon and Susan Wood have to train Frightful to eat in "Hunger is Frightful's Teacher"?
(a) Rats.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Ducks.
(d) Rabbits.

5. What term from the novel refers to a male hawk?
(a) Tiercel.
(b) Kit.
(c) Eglini.
(d) Mew.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Mole return to the farm injured in "Frightful Finds the Enemy"?

3. Who is left in the aerie to take the rabbit dropped by Frightful in "The Eyases Get on Wing"?

4. Where does Mole cross a bridge when escaping the home of the Van Sandtfords?

5. When was the Forward to Frightful's Mountain written?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chup seek out a mate in Frightful?

2. Who is Mrs. Strawberry?

3. How do the eyases develop from hatching to leaving the nest?

4. Describe Frightful. What role does Frightful play in the story?

5. What backstory does the author establish regarding Mole in "Frightful Peregrinates"?

6. Who is Sam Gribley and where does he live?

7. How does Sam respond when he first sees Frightful in "Frightful Finds Sam"?

8. Who are Bate and Spud?

9. How do the students respond to Frightful when she is shown in Roxbury?

10. What is odd to Jon and Susan about Frightful? What is the reason for this oddity?

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