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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 knows he will take care of her.
(b) She knows her mother is at Highwater.
(c) She can not search for food herself.
(d) She is good friends with Gracie and Holly.

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

3. What does Odder perceive on her webbing?
(a) A ring of jewelry.
(b) A small, clamshell-sized piece of plastic.
(c) Kelp.
(d) Nothing.

4. 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 her legends.
(c) They are not very meaningful to her.
(d) They are her gods.

5. From the aquarists' point of view for the otters, at the end of the day, play is which of the following?
(a) Play.
(b) Work.
(c) Hard.
(d) Unneccesary.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Odder ask Gracie and Holly when she first sees them again?

3. What do the older otters say it means when the aquarists name an otter with a name and not a number?

4. What do the aquarists want Odder to do more of?

5. What is worse than Odder's discomfort following the shark attack?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do humans help otters learn to dive?

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

4. What do the aquarists use to mimic kelp?

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

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

7. What is special about Gracie and Holly?

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

9. What does Holly tell Odder about Kairi?

10. What kind of species are otters?

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