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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Odder keep thinking as the humans take her in Part III?

2. What is Kairi actually holding?

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

4. What can the aquarists be confident of as they watch their otters go back to the wild?

5. What does Odder know living at Highwater will spare her?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What takes Odder longer once she starts eating solid food?

6. How does Odder change after the shark attack?

7. What is special about Gracie and Holly?

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

9. How does Odder get separated from her mother?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Odder's and Kairi's friendship change over the course of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Applegate chose to write Odder in verse? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What are Odder's greatest regrets, and how does Applegate portray them to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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