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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say is the one thing Roz's pursuers want to do to her above all things?
(a) Cover her in mud.
(b) Kill her.
(c) Understand her.
(d) Hug her.

3. What is the first element of bird life that Roz studies in order to understand the birds better?
(a) Their feeding habits.
(b) Their songs.
(c) Their patterns of flight.
(d) Their methods of raising their offspring.

4. What strategy does Roz use that works to drive her pursuers away?
(a) She asks the beavers if she can hide in their lodge.
(b) She camouflages herself with moss.
(c) She jumps into the ocean and swims out of reach.
(d) She jumps into a tree and shakes pinecones down onto their heads.

5. What constitutes Roz's version of sleep?
(a) She sings lullabies to herself.
(b) She stands motionless, thinking about her goals for the next day.
(c) She lies on the ground and looks up at the stars.
(d) She switches off her nonessential programs.

6. What reason does Loudwing give for her belief that it will be a miracle if Brightbill survives?
(a) He is a runt and an orphan.
(b) He does not have a way to stay warm.
(c) He has no brothers or sisters.
(d) He has a robot for a mother.

7. What is the news shared by the leader of the first dawn meeting readers are privy to?
(a) That there is a shortage of clean water on the island.
(b) That there is a monster on the island.
(c) That food needs to be shared more equally.
(d) That there has been too much infighting recently.

8. When Roz begins to clean off the sticky substance, what happens to thwart her efforts?
(a) Pine needles land on the sticky substance and thus stick to Roz as well.
(b) The sticky substance causes her hands to stick together.
(c) The sticky substance gets onto all of her body parts as she tries to clean it off.
(d) Bees land on the sticky substance and thus stick to Roz as well.

9. When Roz encounters the inhabitants of her new choice of home, what does she shout to them?
(a) "Please forgive me!"
(b) "I'm sorry!"
(c) "My name is Roz!"
(d) "Please stay away!"

10. Why does Loudwing send Roz to speak to Mr. Beaver?
(a) So he can carve a bed out of wood for Brightbill to sleep in.
(b) So he can use his tail to grind corn that Brightbill can eat.
(c) So he can build her a shelter for Brightbill.
(d) So he can tell her how to raise an orphan.

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

12. What is the first request Roz makes of the animals?
(a) She wants them to teach her their survival techniques.
(b) She wants them to bend her arm back into its rightful shape.
(c) She wants them to build her a house.
(d) She wants them to be nice to her.

13. When Roz encounters an old goose, what is the first question she asks the goose?
(a) "Will you take the gosling?"
(b) "What can I feed this gosling?"
(c) "Why is this gosling so noisy?"
(d) "What shall I name this gosling?"

14. How many crates of robots are there in total?
(a) Scores.
(b) Thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Dozens.

15. After camouflaging herself for the first time, where does Roz settle in?
(a) Among some rocks.
(b) On the riverbank.
(c) Among the swamp grasses.
(d) In a cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Roz do to survive the threat she encounters on the mountaintop?

2. Upon discovering one unharmed egg from the broken goose nest, what does Roz do?

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

4. What happens to get Roz's body sticky?

5. What is the first selfless act Roz performs that begins to end her period of alienation?

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