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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. When the bird makes noises at Roz, what does she say to the bird?
(a) "Please go away."
(b) "Can we be friends?"
(c) "I do not understand you."
(d) "Please do not hurt me."

2. What catches the attention of the otters to make them come near to Roz?
(a) The wet rocks sparkling in the sun.
(b) The glowing light coming from Roz's crate.
(c) The smashed robot parts glinting in the sun.
(d) The sound of Roz telling them her name.

3. Before Roz leaves the camouflaged creature, she speaks to it. What does she say?
(a) "See you later."
(b) "Thank you."
(c) "Be at peace."
(d) "Let's meet again soon."

4. During the first dawn meeting described by the narrator, who leads the meeting?
(a) Swooper the owl.
(b) Woody the woodchuck.
(c) Muddy the mudskipper.
(d) Chitchat the squirrel.

5. What does Mr. and Mrs. Beaver's son Paddler say about Roz taking on the role of Brightbill's mother?
(a) That he does not see how the gosling can survive with Roz as his mother.
(b) That it will be very difficult for her to learn how to be a mother.
(c) That she is a very good robot for taking care of Brightbill.
(d) That his own mother should help Roz since she is such a good mother to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Roz get out of her crate?

2. What does Loudwing tell Roz she will have to do if she wants the gosling to survive?

3. What object does Roz bring to Mr. Beaver as a gift to accompany her request for help?

4. What prey does Roz see foxes stalk?

5. What happens to make Roz feel unsafe on the mountaintop she has chosen?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?

2. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?

3. When the narrator shares that upon Roz's arrival on the island, she feels at home and feels that she belongs, what does he list among the facts of which Roz is unaware?

4. What pseudo-emotion does Roz feel when she sees that the island creatures have made it through the storm just fine?

5. What learned tactic does Roz apply to the situation with the bears?

6. Besides informing her experience of motherhood, what other area of life does Pinktail's advice help Roz with?

7. How do the sounds that Roz makes contrast with the sounds already occurring within the forest prior to her arrival?

8. What does Roz realize once the sun fully charges her battery and what does this realization cause her to do?

9. After Roz constructs a makeshift nest and climbs a tree, she watches a scene unfold below her and learns something from an opossum that directly informs her ideas about raising the goose inside the egg she has found. What does she learn and how does she apply that learning?

10. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?

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