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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. 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.

2. What does Odder see on the horizon once while ocean diving that catches her attention?
(a) A storm.
(b) A sunset.
(c) Wild otters.
(d) Sharks.

3. What is impossible for Odder to do concerning the big clumsy creatures that are the humans?
(a) Leave them.
(b) Love them.
(c) Hate them.
(d) Decipher them and their meanings.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where can Odder play for the first time that is beautiful and that Odder appreciates in Part IV?

2. What does Odder learn about Kairi that is sad news?

3. To the aquarists, what is every hour with humans for otters?

4. How does Odder feel about the idea of returning to the ocean?

5. What do the aquarists think returning to the wild symbolizes for otters?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Odder learn can change your life forever when the ocean is your home?

2. What does Odder instinctively want to do with her wounds that the humans will not let her do?

3. What kind of species are otters?

4. How does Odder change after the shark attack?

5. What is special about Gracie and Holly?

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

7. What is all that Odder can think when she first loses her mother?

8. How does Odder feel the first time a human takes her to dive in the ocean?

9. How does Odder tell there are other otters around in Highwater?

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

(see the answer keys)

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