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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jonathan become as a result of the Council's decision?
(a) Vagabond
(b) Prisoner
(c) Outcast
(d) Shunned One

2. How many birds are in the group mentioned in question #1?
(a) 1000
(b) 20
(c) 400
(d) 10000

3. How many times does Jonathan try this dive in question #10?
(a) 5 times
(b) 10 times
(c) 100 times
(d) 2 times

4. After Jonathan's brush with death, again, he attempts what at 8000 feet?
(a) Suicide
(b) Nothing
(c) Another dive
(d) A roll

5. What does Jonathan hit when he loses control as described in #15?
(a) Another gull
(b) The cliffs
(c) The beach
(d) The sea

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

7. What seems to make Jonathan want to try his flights at even higher heights?
(a) The voice
(b) His mom
(c) His conscience
(d) Other gulls

8. A single _________ is the key to curving while diving, Johnathan finds.
(a) Head turn
(b) Wingtip feather
(c) Dorsal feather
(d) Moment of hesitation

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

10. What does Jonathan decide he needs to do with his wings in order to succeed in the dive from #10?
(a) Flap harder
(b) Make them smaller
(c) Hold them still
(d) Spread them out

11. What is the gull speed record that Jonathan sets as he makes that adjustment from #13?
(a) 90mph
(b) 75mph
(c) 100mph
(d) 80mph

12. If falcons were meant to fly at night, the voice says, they would have the eyes of what bird?
(a) Owl
(b) Falcon
(c) Hawk
(d) Robin

13. Jonathan flies the first ________ of any seagull on Earth.
(a) Long distance
(b) Flying show
(c) Aerobatics
(d) Non-necessary trip

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

15. What does Jonathan's mother call him?
(a) Bad Gull
(b) Jon
(c) Silly Boy
(d) Johnny

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the techniques that Jonathan learns?

2. What does Jonathan vow he will do when the voice says what it does in #24?

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

4. The voice tells Jonathan he does not have ________ for brains.

5. How does Jonathan feel after breaking his promise to become like other gulls?

(see the answer keys)

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