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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 dream of one night after a perfect day of diving?
(a) A newborn female pup.
(b) Gracie.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her friend Kairi.

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

3. What scent does Odder get for the first time in the aquarium in Part III?
(a) The scent of toast.
(b) The scent of rays.
(c) The scent of sharks.
(d) The scent of other otters.

4. What does Odder eventually shed at Highwater?
(a) Her shyness.
(b) Her baby coat.
(c) Her tail.
(d) Her fins.

5. What does Odder know in her heart that she owes the humans?
(a) Her dreams.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Her future.
(d) Everything.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Odder a superstar at?

2. What is impossible for Odder to do concerning the big clumsy creatures that are the humans?

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

4. Nothing the humans do for Odder is quite right, but it is which of the following?

5. What does Odder think is a bit embarrassing?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is special about Gracie and Holly?

2. What does Odder always do at the end of diving lessons?

3. How does Odder get separated from her mother?

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

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

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

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

8. How does Odder communicate with the humans at Highwater?

9. What does Odder think of the humans at Highwater?

10. What do humans use as a treat to entice otters to dive?

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