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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 is the news shared by the leader of the first dawn meeting readers are privy to?

2. When the owl refuses Roz's first request of the island's animals, what does he give as his reason?

3. When Roz encounters an old goose, what is the first question she asks the goose?

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

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

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

3. What does Roz do when she realizes that the gosling is hungry but that she does not know what to feed it?

4. What important element of Roz's programming does the reader learn about when she is unable to defend herself during the bear attack?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. What is Roz's first major act in service of another creature?

8. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?

9. What is the Dawn Truce?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the author's message regarding altruism and how does he use the events of the novel to shape that message? Provide concrete details to substantiate your claim.

Essay Topic 2

What is the novel's message regarding acceptance and belonging? Discuss how these themes are shaped by the events within the novel and provide concrete details to support your claim.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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