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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Brightbill begins to speak to everyone who will listen, what does he say at the start of each conversation?
(a) "How are you today?"
(b) "Hello, my name is Brightbill."
(c) "My mom is Roz."
(d) "Want to play?"

2. When Brightbill tells Roz that the other goslings have been making fun of him, what does he say their comments are about?
(a) They laugh at Brightbill for saying hello to everyone he sees.
(b) They laugh at Brightbill for being an orphan.
(c) They laugh at Brightbill for being a weak swimmer.
(d) They laugh at Brightbill for having a monster mother.

3. What happens when Roz and Brightbill get so curious about Roz's button that they press it?
(a) Nothing happens.
(b) She shuts down but when she restarts, she is unable to speak the animals' languages.
(c) She is temporarily unable to see, hear, or smell.
(d) She shuts down and restarts without incident.

4. What method does Brightbill use to become a truly excellent flier?
(a) He practices every minute of every day and sometimes even at night.
(b) He moves through a series of air exercises each day.
(c) He watches how hawks and owls and sparrows and vultures move through the air.
(d) He puts to use Roz's analysis of flight techniques.

5. What does Brightbill say when Roz asks him why he has not yet visited the robot graveyard?
(a) He says that he had gotten nervous and had wanted Roz to go with him.
(b) He says that the cliff was too steep for him.
(c) He says that Roz had told him not to go, so he had wanted to obey.
(d) He says that he had changed his mind about wanting to see the dead robots.

6. What pseudo-emotion does Roz feel about the friendship between Brightbill and Chitchat?
(a) Annoyance.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Protectiveness.
(d) Jealousy.

7. When Roz steps outside the nest and sees snow, she sees shapes underneath the snow. What do the shapes turn out to be?
(a) Bushes.
(b) Snowdrifts.
(c) Other lodges.
(d) Frozen animal corpses.

8. What is NOT part of Roz's and Brightbill's nightly routine?
(a) Roz rocks Brightbill back to sleep if he has nightmares.
(b) Roz brings Brightbill food or water if he wakes up hungry or thirsty.
(c) Roz tends the fire if it is cold and fans Brightbill if it is hot.
(d) Brightbill sleeps on the moss bench while Roz goes outside for a long nighttime walk.

9. What is NOT an event Brightbill tells within the long story of the migration when he returns?
(a) The farmer's cat helping the geese sneak inside the warm greenhouse.
(b) The farmer's murder of Longneck.
(c) The farmer's cat's murder of Longneck.
(d) Meeting a pigeon named Graybeak who shows the geese the robots in the city.

10. When Brightbill asks Roz if she will ever die, what is her reply?
(a) "I would never leave you."
(b) "Only after you do."
(c) "I think so."
(d) "Never."

11. What does Mrs. Beaver suggest Roz do with Rockfish?
(a) Put him into a fishbowl.
(b) Fry him up for dinner.
(c) Toss him to the vultures.
(d) Trap him under the ice.

12. What does Roz do when she sees Brightbill swallowing pebbles on the beach?
(a) She shakes him to see if she can hear the pebbles rattling around.
(b) She gives him cod liver oil in hopes that they will help him digest the pebbles.
(c) She tells him it is fine to eat pebbles because eating just a few will help him digest his food.
(d) She holds him upside down and hopes the pebbles will fall out of his mouth.

13. Before plants are installed in the garden, what favor does Tawny ask of the neighbors?
(a) To aerate the soil but digging their claws and hooves into it.
(b) To gather seeds from the forest.
(c) To install an irrigation system using the river as the source of the water.
(d) To leave their droppings on the garden.

14. After Roz fixes the hole in the roof of the Nest, she shouts something out into the night. What does she shout?
(a) She shouts to the island's animals that there will be a mass funeral the following day.
(b) She shouts that she is lonely.
(c) She shouts to the island's animals that the geese will be returning from their migration the following day.
(d) She shouts to the island's animals that they do not have to freeze, for they are welcome in her warm lodge.

15. When Roz and Brightbill have questions about the migration, to whom do they go for answers?
(a) Longneck and the Beaver family.
(b) Swooper.
(c) Loudwing and the other older geese.
(d) The family of bears.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Roz find out why Rockmouth is so angry?

2. What is Roz's reply when Brightbill asks if he can stay on the island with Roz rather than migrating with the other geese?

3. What method does Roz use in order to determine if the pond is safe to cross?

4. What does Brightbill's yellow fluff turn into when he moves out of childhood?

5. What causes Roz to propose a perpetual truce within the Nest?

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