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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before plants are installed in the garden, what favor does Tawny ask of the neighbors?
(a) To leave their droppings on the garden.
(b) To install an irrigation system using the river as the source of the water.
(c) To aerate the soil but digging their claws and hooves into it.
(d) To gather seeds from the forest.

2. When Roz finds out that Rockmouth has been angry due to the beaver dam blocking him from his river home, what does she do?
(a) Builds him his own special pond.
(b) Transports him back to his river home.
(c) Smashes the beaver dam.
(d) Tells him to adapt to his new surroundings and to stop trying to hurt other animals.

3. What does Brightbill do when Roz forbids him to see the robot graveyard?
(a) He flies there anyway.
(b) He refuses to speak to Roz for several days.
(c) He throws a temper tantrum, beating his wings furiously.
(d) He cries.

4. When the second lodge catches on fire, what does Broadfoot say is the cause?
(a) The animals have put too many logs in the fire pit.
(b) The lodge has been struck by lightning.
(c) The animals have stacked the kindling too close to the fire pit.
(d) The animals have added sap to the fire.

5. What does Brightbill's yellow fluff turn into when he moves out of childhood?
(a) A coat of silky brown feathers.
(b) A coat of silky white feathers.
(c) A rough coat of quills that will later grow into feathers.
(d) A layer of white downy fluff.

6. What causes Roz to propose a perpetual truce within the Nest?
(a) After a fox eats a hare right in front of the fire, she worries that more deaths will occur in the Nest.
(b) Swooper suggests it to her.
(c) She notices that everyone's hunger is growing.
(d) She looks around and sees predators lying with prey but wonders how long the peace can last.

7. What method does Roz use in order to determine if the pond is safe to cross?
(a) She chops a tree down and watches it bounce off the ice as it falls.
(b) She throws a torch onto the ice.
(c) She throws a heavy rock onto the ice and watches it bounce.
(d) She asks Broadfoot the moose to check if the ice is solid.

8. When Loudwing visits the garden, what occasion does she tell Roz is the following day?
(a) Jumping Day.
(b) Swimming Day.
(c) Climbing Day.
(d) Flying Day.

9. When Longneck ask if anyone has questions before the geese begin their journey, what does Roz ask?
(a) She asks if she can have one more hug from Brightbill.
(b) She asks where Brightbill should fly in the formation since he does not have other family members flying with him.
(c) She asks how she is supposed to survive without her son.
(d) She asks when the geese will return.

10. After Roz fixes the hole in the roof of the Nest, she shouts something out into the night. What does she shout?
(a) She shouts to the island's animals that the geese will be returning from their migration the following day.
(b) She shouts to the island's animals that there will be a mass funeral the following day.
(c) She shouts to the island's animals that they do not have to freeze, for they are welcome in her warm lodge.
(d) She shouts that she is lonely.

11. What does Roz do when she sees Brightbill swallowing pebbles on the beach?
(a) She gives him cod liver oil in hopes that they will help him digest the pebbles.
(b) She holds him upside down and hopes the pebbles will fall out of his mouth.
(c) She tells him it is fine to eat pebbles because eating just a few will help him digest his food.
(d) She shakes him to see if she can hear the pebbles rattling around.

12. What does Brightbill say when Roz asks him why he has not yet visited the robot graveyard?
(a) He says that the cliff was too steep for him.
(b) He says that he had changed his mind about wanting to see the dead robots.
(c) He says that he had gotten nervous and had wanted Roz to go with him.
(d) He says that Roz had told him not to go, so he had wanted to obey.

13. When Roz and Brightbill have questions about the migration, to whom do they go for answers?
(a) Loudwing and the other older geese.
(b) The family of bears.
(c) Swooper.
(d) Longneck and the Beaver family.

14. What advice does Loudwing give to Roz about Brightbill's recent bad behavior?
(a) She tells Roz that it is natural for adolescents to be moody and that he just needs to be alone for a while.
(b) She tells Roz to forget about it.
(c) She tells Roz that she should go ask Swooper for advice about what to do.
(d) She tells Roz that she must punish Brightbill for his behavior.

15. What happens when Roz and Brightbill get so curious about Roz's button that they press it?
(a) She is temporarily unable to see, hear, or smell.
(b) She shuts down but when she restarts, she is unable to speak the animals' languages.
(c) She shuts down and restarts without incident.
(d) Nothing happens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brightbill tell Chitchat that makes her speechless?

2. Who teaches the goslings in their new skill lessons for the celebrated day?

3. What specific speech pattern does Chitchat use whenever she speaks?

4. What is NOT one safety feature added to the rebuilt lodge?

5. Brightbill is different in one way from the other goslings his age. What is that difference?

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