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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 causes a spinout instead of grace when Jonathan makes the change in #38?
(a) Hesitation
(b) More than one feather
(c) Closing one's eyes
(d) Flapping

2. To the rest of the gulls, it is not flying that matters, but ________.
(a) Eating
(b) Sleeping
(c) Soaring
(d) Stopping

3. What does Jonathan fly through, without killing anyone?
(a) The water
(b) The Flock
(c) The forest
(d) The beach

4. When does Jonathan attempt his dives again?
(a) He doesn't
(b) The next night
(c) A few days later
(d) Sunrise

5. Jonathan believes he has discovered the _______ for their lives.
(a) Secret of meaning
(b) Higher purpose
(c) Best physical activity
(d) Way to the truth

Short Answer Questions

1. How many birds are in the group mentioned in question #1?

2. Jonathan tries to defend his actions, saying he is the most ________ of gulls.

3. Jonathan's recent triumphs make him feel as though a new _____ is starting for him.

4. How many times does Jonathan try this dive in question #10?

5. What is the gull speed record that Jonathan sets as he makes that adjustment from #13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Jonathan fails and he begins to turn his thoughts to just sinking to the bottom of the sea?

2. At what height does Jonathan attempt to dive from the morning after his accident and realization?

3. What do Jonathan's parents think about his behavior when the other seagulls are eating?

4. What happens to Jonathan every time he tries to turn a full power dive into a vertical dive?

5. What happens to Jonathan once he begins to tell other gulls they do not have to settle for a drab life?

6. What is Jonathan's reasoning for wanting to teach the others?

7. What does Jonathan think the solution might be to his problem in #6?

8. What does Jonathan's mother ask him to do when she sees him flying all by himself all the time?

9. What does Jonathan do that no other seagull on Earth has done, making him the first?

10. What does the strange voice in Jonathan's head tell him about his flying, at first?

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