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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Odder keep going back to Highwater with her diving teacher?
(a) She can not search for food herself.
(b) She knows he will take care of her.
(c) She is good friends with Gracie and Holly.
(d) She knows her mother is at Highwater.

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

3. What do the humans do with Odder in the bigger pool several times a day?
(a) Introduce her to other otters there.
(b) Feed her there.
(c) Help her float back and forth there.
(d) Try to make her breed there.

4. What does Odder sense during her first few days at Highwater, but she never actually sees?
(a) Octopuses.
(b) Other otters.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Humans.

5. What do humans think is the best approach to teaching otters how to live?
(a) Pretending to be otters themselves.
(b) Making them work hard.
(c) Feeding them lightly.
(d) Making them listen to music.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Odder eventually shed at Highwater?

2. What does Odder fight in her dreams?

3. Why do the aquarists X-ray Odder?

4. What is Kairi's new name?

5. What will the humans not let Odder do after her surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Odder change after the shark attack?

2. What does Odder's first fear of diving turn into?

3. What do the humans at Highwater try to act as a substitute for?

4. How does Odder get separated from her mother?

5. What is special about Gracie and Holly?

6. What did Kairi always love Odder to do for her?

7. What kind of species are otters?

8. What does Holly tell Odder when she and Gracie meet Odder again in Highwater?

9. What does Odder feel she owes the aquarists even before she leaves them for the wild?

10. What does Odder regret in Part IV?

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