1. What is an eyass?
   A)  A donkey

   B)  A falcon chick

   C)  A falconer's assistant

   D)  A special knot used to secure the falcon to the perch

2. Which of the following playwrights was especially fond of using falconry imagery in his works?
   A)  Cristopher Marlowe

   B)  Albert Camus

   C)  William Shakespeare

   D)  Euripides

3. What English king was famous for having a trained pair of gyrfalcons that he hunted cranes with? When his falcons had a good day in the field, he was especially lavish in his almsgivings - possibly one of the few times some would call him generous!
   A)  King Richard III

   B)  King Richard the Lionheart

   C)  King Henry II

   D)  King John

4. What is a creance?
   A)  A falconer's glove

   B)  A ,long length of cord used in the training of a falcon to fly to the lure

   C)  A special perch for a falcon

   D)  The falcon's bathing basin

5. In falconry, imping refers to?
   A)  The repair of a broken flight feather

   B)  Filing and trimming of a falcon's beak

   C)  Temporarily blinding the falcon by sewing her eyelids shut

   D)  Going hunting for imps

6. Which of the following monarchs was said to have a woman, Mary of Canterbury, as Grand Master of Falconry?
   A)  King Henry VIII

   B)  Queen Anne

   C)  Queen Elizabeth I

   D)  Queen Emma

7. In falconry, seeling refers to?
   A)  Making sure the mews is free of drafts

   B)  Steaming of a falcon's feathers to straighten them

   C)  Blinding a crane so a novice falcon may kill it more easily

   D)  Temporarily blinding the falcon by sewing her eyelids shut

8. Who is the author of De Arte Venandi cum Avibus (The Art of Hunting with Birds or The Art of Falconry)?
   A)  Frederick II

   B)  Albertus Magnus

   C)  Alfred the Great

   D)  Adelard of Bath

9. What is the definition of a passage hawk (or falcon)?
   A)  A falcon that still has downy feathers, but is starting to scramble out onto branches near the nest

   B)  An old and expereinced bird

   C)  A nestling

   D)  A bird that is captured during its first migration, before it has had its first moult in the wild

10. What are some of the most important qualities a good falconer should possess?
   A)  He or she must be of high social standing

   B)  He or she must be rich

   C)  He or she must be intelligent, patient and gentle with the birds, and practice the sport for the sheer love of it

   D)  He or she must be a heavy drinker