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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of bird begins to circle Roz's head when it feels she is threatening its nest?
2. During the first dawn meeting described by the narrator, who leads the meeting?
3. When the gosling hatches and asks for food, what does Roz do?
4. What is the setting for the beginning of the novel?
5. Upon discovering one unharmed egg from the broken goose nest, what does Roz do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What lesson does Roz learn from the stick insect and how does she acknowledge his ability to help her?
2. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?
3. What learned tactic does Roz apply to the situation with the bears?
4. What does Roz reveal about herself once she begins to speak after being activated?
5. 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?
6. How do the sounds that Roz makes contrast with the sounds already occurring within the forest prior to her arrival?
7. How does Roz become activated once her crate arrives on shore?
8. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?
9. What is the Dawn Truce?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the significance of the final party Roz throws the night before the RECOs arrive on the island. What theme is most prominent within the author's relation of this event and what is his message regarding this theme? Choose concrete details from the novel to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
Explain how the narrator's use of the second person point of view helps to shape the impact of the novel. Include concrete details to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
Find instances of foreshadowing within the novel and create a claim stating what overall purpose the literary device of foreshadowing serves in relation to the author's intended effects on the reader. Use concrete details from each instance to prove your larger claim about foreshadowing.
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