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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Odder know living at Highwater will spare her?
(a) Having a pup.
(b) Having new friends.
(c) The dangers of the ocean.
(d) Eating bad foods.

2. What does Odder keep thinking as the humans take her in Part III?
(a) Fight!
(b) Where is the food?
(c) Where is she?
(d) Help!

3. What can the aquarists be confident of as they watch their otters go back to the wild?
(a) They have taught the creatures well.
(b) They will live at least 10 years.
(c) They will be resistant to pollution.
(d) They are kind.

4. What does Odder think of solid food?
(a) It tastes synthetic.
(b) It tastes like towels.
(c) It is bad.
(d) It is delicious.

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

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

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

8. What does Holly say about Odder's movements?
(a) They are still Odder's.
(b) They are quick.
(c) They are as slow as hers and Gracie's now.
(d) They are jerky.

9. Where can Odder play for the first time that is beautiful and that Odder appreciates in Part IV?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The pup pool.
(c) The sandbox.
(d) The rooftop pool.

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

11. What do the aquarists use to simulate kelp?
(a) Basil.
(b) Pine cones.
(c) Palm fronds.
(d) Strands of fabric like at the car wash.

12. What do the aquarists use to teach and play with otters?
(a) Musical instruments.
(b) Wood.
(c) Shells, algae, urchins, and rocks.
(d) Computers.

13. What feeling does Odder immediately have during her first ocean dive?
(a) Suspicion.
(b) Panic.
(c) Anger.
(d) Joy.

14. What takes longer for Odder once she starts on solid food?
(a) Grooming.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Playing.
(d) Swimming.

15. What is the "way of things" with otter mothers?
(a) They die soon after birth.
(b) They move on.
(c) They sing all the time.
(d) They love pups forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Odder know in her heart that she owes the humans?

2. What does Odder vow to do if she finds Kairi in Highwater?

3. What does Odder forget the taste of before long?

4. What does Odder think Kairi is holding?

5. What is Kairi's new name?

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