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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. From what creature does Roz learn the value of camouflage?
(a) A stick insect.
(b) A chameleon.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) A firefly.

2. After descending the mountain, what is the first thing Roz does?
(a) Looks for new friends.
(b) Cleans herself.
(c) Fixes her broken foot.
(d) Looks for an energy source.

3. What is the first pseudo-emotion that Roz feels upon her activation?
(a) Anger.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Sadness.

4. What materials does Roz NOT use to camouflage herself?
(a) Honeycomb.
(b) Mud.
(c) Ferns.
(d) Moss.

5. Why does Roz's first choice of escape strategy from the cave fail?
(a) Her pursuers are used to finding camouflaged prey.
(b) Her hands are not effective at digging.
(c) Her jumping mechanism fails.
(d) She is slower than her pursuers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two metamorphic processes does Roz watch happen during her camouflaged hiding?

2. Fink the fox makes a request of Roz. What does he ask of her?

3. What type of bird does Roz see circling above the foothills?

4. How many crates of robots are there in total?

5. What method does the bird finally use to drive Roz away from its nest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Dawn Truce?

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

3. What lesson does Roz learn from the stick insect and how does she acknowledge his ability to help her?

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

5. What event occurs that is an impetus to ending Roz's loneliness and alienation?

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

7. 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?

8. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?

9. What does Roz reveal about herself once she begins to speak after being activated?

10. Though the beavers are the experts when it comes to building, there is one main thing they cannot do. What is it and how does the author demonstrate that all of us have our own unique areas of expertise?

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