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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Odder think is a bit embarrassing?
(a) When the aquarists feed her.
(b) When the aquarists use the net to catch her in her tank.
(c) When the aquarists groom her.
(d) When she loses her hair.

2. What will the humans not let Odder do after her surgery?
(a) Sleep.
(b) Lick her wounds.
(c) Drink.
(d) Eat.

3. What is Odder a superstar at?
(a) Diving.
(b) Singing.
(c) Tool use.
(d) Sleeping.

4. What does Odder learn about Kairi that is sad news?
(a) She had the flu.
(b) She was never found.
(c) She had a stillborn pup.
(d) She had twins who lived.

5. Why are the two older otters permanently at Highwater?
(a) They are too violent.
(b) They are too young.
(c) They are injured.
(d) The aquarists decided they were not fit for the ocean.

6. Nothing the humans do for Odder is quite right, but it is which of the following?
(a) Completely wrong.
(b) Harmful.
(c) Mean-spirited.
(d) Right enough.

7. What do the new animals who have taken Odder as a pup do to her?
(a) Groom and feed and measure and test her.
(b) Poke her with needles.
(c) Sing to her.
(d) Towel her off.

8. What is Kairi actually holding?
(a) A pup.
(b) Food.
(c) A toy.
(d) A blanket.

9. What takes all of Odder's strength to do at first?
(a) Dream.
(b) Play.
(c) Eat.
(d) Dive.

10. What does Odder feel about the humans after meeting the two older otters for the first time?
(a) They are her legends.
(b) They are her long-lost family.
(c) They are not very meaningful to her.
(d) They are her gods.

11. What do the older otters say it means when the aquarists name an otter with a name and not a number?
(a) The otter is pregnant.
(b) The otter is friendly.
(c) The otter is going to die soon.
(d) The otter is staying forever.

12. What kind of a species are otters?
(a) Markstone.
(b) Keystone.
(c) Moonstone.
(d) Bloodstone.

13. What decision do the aquarists reach about Odder?
(a) They will try to breed her.
(b) They will release her soon
(c) They will keep her at Highwater forever.
(d) They will euthanize her.

14. How does Applegate describe Odder's dive?
(a) A bell.
(b) A hypnotizing cyclone of fur and bubbles.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) A ruse.

15. What kind of sounds do the humans make every time Odder eats?
(a) Shouts.
(b) No sounds at all.
(c) Singing sounds.
(d) Relieved murmering sounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can hope be?

2. What does Odder sense during her first few days at Highwater, but she never actually sees?

3. What is all it takes to change your life forever when the ocean is your home?

4. What does Odder keep thinking as the humans take her in Part III?

5. What does Odder eventually shed at Highwater?

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