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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Kairi's new name?
(a) Helen.
(b) Renee.
(c) Twyla.
(d) Jasmine.
2. What is it called when otters link themselves together?
(a) A raft.
(b) A float.
(c) A moat.
(d) A fleet.
3. What feeling does Odder immediately have during her first ocean dive?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Panic.
(c) Joy.
(d) Anger.
4. What does Odder think is a bit embarrassing?
(a) When the aquarists use the net to catch her in her tank.
(b) When she loses her hair.
(c) When the aquarists feed her.
(d) When the aquarists groom her.
5. What does Odder learn about Kairi that is sad news?
(a) She was never found.
(b) She had a stillborn pup.
(c) She had twins who lived.
(d) She had the flu.
6. What does Odder think of solid food?
(a) It is delicious.
(b) It tastes like towels.
(c) It tastes synthetic.
(d) It is bad.
7. What can the aquarists be confident of as they watch their otters go back to the wild?
(a) They are kind.
(b) They will live at least 10 years.
(c) They will be resistant to pollution.
(d) They have taught the creatures well.
8. What does Odder think human bodies offer?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Fragility.
(d) Lots of opportunities for humiliation.
9. What do the new animals who have taken Odder as a pup do to her?
(a) Towel her off.
(b) Poke her with needles.
(c) Groom and feed and measure and test her.
(d) Sing to her.
10. What takes longer for Odder once she starts on solid food?
(a) Grooming.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Playing.
(d) Sleeping.
11. What do the humans put on Odder's webbing?
(a) A ring of jewelry.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A tag.
(d) Kelp.
12. What does Odder dream of one night after a perfect day of diving?
(a) A newborn female pup.
(b) Her friend Kairi.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Gracie.
13. What does Odder feel about the humans after meeting the two older otters for the first time?
(a) They are her long-lost family.
(b) They are not very meaningful to her.
(c) They are her gods.
(d) They are her legends.
14. How do the aquarists plan to re-introduce Odder to the wild?
(a) Let her explore the ocean with them until she is ready to do it on her own.
(b) They do not want to bring her back to the wild.
(c) They will have other otters show her how to survive in the wild.
(d) Bring her to the ocean one day and leave her there.
15. Nothing the humans do for Odder is quite right, but it is which of the following?
(a) Mean-spirited.
(b) Completely wrong.
(c) Harmful.
(d) Right enough.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Odder know in her heart that she owes the humans?
2. What decision do the aquarists reach about Odder?
3. What takes all of Odder's strength to do at first?
4. What is the first thing Odder says to Kairi?
5. How does Applegate describe Odder's dive?
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