Name_____________________________ Frightful's Mountain: ForewordDirections: Read the forward and answer each question using a complete sentence.1.What does it mean on the first page where he describes the Craigheads as a "family of naturalists?" ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What does the word "cadre" mean as it is used on page x? ______________________________________________________________________________3. What does the word "obstructed" mean as it is used on page xi? __________________________________________________________________________4. What is the reason that Kennedy had a strong interest in natural history as an adult? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. How did reading My Side of the Mountain impact Kennedy and his childhood friends? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Bonus: The foreword of the novel is written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Who is he? _____________________________________________________________

Name__________________________ Frightful Takes Off Pages 5-20

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence.

1. How did Sam come to have Frightful as a pet? ______________________________________________________________________________________2. What did Sam do to take care of Frightful that her mother would have done?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What does the term "waiting on" mean as it is used on page 6? ___________________________________________________________________________4. In what way were Sam and Frightful dependent upon one another? ________________________________________________________________________5. How did Frightful know that the two men took her to a forest clearing edged with bushes? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. What is the author trying to show by the quote, "A killing snarl colored the air red?" _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. Who set Frightful free and how did Frightful know this person? __________________________________________________________________________8. Why might the author repeat the phrase, "the one mountain among thousands of mountains and the one hemlock tree among millions of trees?" ____________________________________________________________________________9. Why does Frightful not start hunting when she is set free and hasn't eaten in ten hours? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. Once she caught a bird why didn't she eat it right away? ______________________________________________________________________________11. Why does Frightful not land on Sam's arm? _________________________________________________________________________________________12. What is a "tiercel" as described on page 19? ________________________________________________________________________________________13. Why do you think Sam didn't call Frightful down to him? _______________________________________________________________________________

Name____________________________ Frightful Goes to Falcon School

Pages 20-32

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. What are some of the physical characteristics of the peregrine falcon? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What is "feather talk" as used on page 22 and why are Chup and Frightful using it? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What are eyases? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why does Frightful not feed the eyases as a female falcon would normally do? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. What happened to Chup's mate, the mother of the eyases? _____________________________________________________________________________6. Why did Chup try to lure Frightful to the eyases? ____________________________________________________________________________________7. What does it mean on pages 25-26 when the author tells us that Frightful knew "instinctively" to sit on the eyases to brood them? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8. When Chup brings back another Duck he waited for Frightful to take it away and defeather it. Why didn’t she? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________9. What are some of the signs that the young falcons are growing older and developing? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. What was the first food that Frightful hunted and brought back to the aerie or nest for Drum, Duchess and Lady? ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name____________________________ The Eyases Get on Wing

Pages 32-42

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. What does it mean when the author’s writes that rabbit “was not

part of their food vocabulary” on page 32? ________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Why were the eyases attacking Frightful and becoming dangerous? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What was the new housing arrangement for the falcon family? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. How did Frightful’s relationship with Mole benefit both of them? __________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Why did Chup call Frightful away from Drum when she had food for

him? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name_____________________ The Wilderness Tests the Eyases

Pages 42-50

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. What does the word “riveted” mean as it is used on page 42?

____________________________________________________________________________2. Why do Frightful’s instincts finally tell her not to feed the eyases?

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______________________________________________________________3. What was the predator that threatened Lady and how was she

saved? _______ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. What skills did the eyases master that were signs they were

becoming independent? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What are two signs in the environment that tell the birds that it is time to migrate? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Why do you think Frightful stayed instead of migrating with the rest of the birds? ______________________________________________________

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Name_____________________________ Frightful Peregrinates

Pages 50-62

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. Why does the landscape that Frightful sees look different to her?

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2. What was the predator that threatened Frightful and how did she escape? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Frightful decided to try to migrate because she was desperate, but needed two things to be able to do so. What did she NOT have that she needed? ________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Who was Frightful reunited with after she started her migration

south? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Why did Frightful stop her migration even though all the conditions

were right and the messages from the environment were telling her to go? ____________

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Name_____________________ Frightful Finds the Enemy

Pages 62-69

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. What does the word “confined” mean as it is used on page 63?

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______________________________________________________________2. What does it mean on page 64 when the author says, “the window

of migration had closed for Frightful?” _______________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Who were the men who wanted to capture Frightful and why did

they want her? ___________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Who had the men already captured that Frightful knew?

_______________________________________________________________________________5. How did the men plan to capture Frightful?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. What two things saved Frightful from being captured?

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Name ____________________________ Disaster Leads to Survival

Pages 69-82

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. What threatened Frightful's life in the beginning of the chapter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What other threat to the Peregrine Falcons does the author mention? _____________________________________________________________________3. What surprised Jon Wood when he went home to tell his wife about finding Frightful? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. What surprised Jon's wife, Susan, about the way Frightful was acting? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Why did Jon and Susan decide to take Frightful to the schools that they would visit? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. Why did Jon call Peter Westerly? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. What name do they call Frightful and why do they call her that? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8. Who was the falcon flying overhead at the end of the chapter? __________________________________________________________________________

Name______________________________Hunger is Frightful's TeacherPages 82-91

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence.

1. What does the word "alighted" mean as it is used on page 83? ____________________________________________________________________________2. What solution does Jon describe to the children to keep the birds from being electrocuted? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What do the students decide to do to help protect the falcons? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Jon tells Destiny that she may have saved other birds. What does he mean by this? How did she do this? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. What does the word "pursuers" mean as it is used on page 88? ___________________________________________________________________________6. How does Jon explain that falcons help humans? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________7. Why does Frightful not eat the rat that Jon gave her? _________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________8. What does it mean when Susan says, "But you are being trained. And hunger is your teacher.?"_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________9. What was the result of the students writing letters, appearing on the radio station and appearing on the television? ______________________________________________________________________________________________

Name____________________ Frightful Finds Sam Part 1

Pages 92-101

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence.

1. Why does the author say that Susan loved and hated the moment that the birds were set free? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. Why was Jon surprised that Frightful was headed towards Delphi? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. What consequences does Sam risk facing if he keeps Frightful? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. Knowing the consequences, Sam develops a solution that he believes will allow him to keep Frightful? What is his solution and why does he believe it will work? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. Why did Frightful leave Sam and where did she land for the night? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. Where does Frightful go during the day and why does she go there? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. Why does Frightful scratch at the bridge and what do you predict will happen there later in the story? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name_____________________________ Frightful Finds Sam Part 2

Pages 102-112

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. What does the word "abundant" mean as it is used on page 103? __________________________________________________________________________2. Why does Sam tell Bando that he doesn't think Frightful migrated south for the winter? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Why does Bando think that Frightful might not mate? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. What would cause Lady's offspring not to survive and why will Lady not live as long as other falcons? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. What are two mating rituals that Frightful and 426 do to get one another's attention? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. Why does Frightful not incubate the egg that she has laid? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Name____________________________ There Are Eggs and Trouble

Pages 112-123

Directions: Read the chapter and answer each question using a complete sentence. 1. Why do falcons lose their breast feathers when eggs are laid? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________2. What happened inside the eggs when they reached 70 degrees? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3. Why is Sam concerned about the repair work that is beginning on the bridge? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________4. What are Leon Longbridge and the children going to do to try to get the bridge repairs to stop? Do you think it will work? Why or why not? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________5. How did Sam get Frightful to stay with her eggs rather than fly away in fear when the men began working on the bridge? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. What two things does Sam plan to do so that he can continue to calm Frightful and encourage her to stay with the eggs? _______________________________

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