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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. As Roz descends from the mountaintop, what causes a clanging sound?
2. What do the camouflaged creature and Roz do when they encounter one another?
3. What is the first pseudo-emotion that Roz feels upon her activation?
4. When Roz is observing the processes of childbirth and rearing, what species does she NOT observe?
5. While Roz finishes activating, she explains what she will do when she is not needed. What does she say she will do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?
2. 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?
3. What is Roz's first major act in service of another creature?
4. What does Roz do when she realizes that the gosling is hungry but that she does not know what to feed it?
5. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?
6. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?
7. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?
8. What lesson does Roz learn from the stick insect and how does she acknowledge his ability to help her?
9. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?
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
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of knowledge. Choose a concept from the basic tenets of epistemology and create a claim applying this concept to the novel. Prove your claim with both concrete details from the novel and concrete details from your research regarding epistemology.
Essay Topic 2
What purpose do the darker events in the novel, such as the shooting of Longneck, the freezing deaths of many animals, and the burning of the lodge, serve in the context of its larger message? Use concrete details from some of these scenes to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
Choose another book or movie that depicts the conflict between nature and technology, contrasting its message with the message put forth by The Wild Robot. Use concrete details from both sources in order to prove your claim.
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