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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 prey does Roz see foxes stalk?
2. After descending the mountain, what is the first thing Roz does?
3. As Roz looks at the geese she has killed, what sound does she hear?
4. What is the one thing Roz DOES know at the time she realizes she is on an island?
5. What is one object that Roz does NOT use camouflage to resemble?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does getting hit by a wave teach both Roz and the reader?
2. What does Roz realize once the sun fully charges her battery and what does this realization cause her to do?
3. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?
4. 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?
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. What event occurs that is an impetus to ending Roz's loneliness and alienation?
7. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?
8. Besides informing her experience of motherhood, what other area of life does Pinktail's advice help Roz with?
9. What does Roz do when she realizes that the gosling is hungry but that she does not know what to feed it?
10. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?
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
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 3
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.
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