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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What advice does Loudwing give to Roz about Brightbill's recent bad behavior?
(a) She tells Roz that it is natural for adolescents to be moody and that he just needs to be alone for a while.
(b) She tells Roz that she should go ask Swooper for advice about what to do.
(c) She tells Roz that she must punish Brightbill for his behavior.
(d) She tells Roz to forget about it.

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

3. What causes a panic in the pond while the goslings are swimming?
(a) A thunder and lightning storm suddenly approaches.
(b) Brightbill tells the other goslings he is going to beat them up.
(c) Rockfish the pike starts to attack the goslings.
(d) A school of piranha approach the group of goslings.

4. Who breaks off Roz's robot foot?
(a) Nettle.
(b) Thorn.
(c) Swooper.
(d) Brightbill.

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

6. What sound always makes Brightbill fall fast asleep?
(a) The sound of thunder.
(b) The sound of ocean waves.
(c) The sound of rain.
(d) The sound of chirping magpies.

7. What does Brightbill do when Roz forbids him to see the robot graveyard?
(a) He refuses to speak to Roz for several days.
(b) He throws a temper tantrum, beating his wings furiously.
(c) He cries.
(d) He flies there anyway.

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

9. When the second lodge catches on fire, what does Broadfoot say is the cause?
(a) The animals have put too many logs in the fire pit.
(b) The animals have stacked the kindling too close to the fire pit.
(c) The lodge has been struck by lightning.
(d) The animals have added sap to the fire.

10. What reason does Mr. Beaver give for his suggestion that Roz build a garden near her new lodge?
(a) It will attract neighbors and will help Roz make friends.
(b) It will make her shelter feel more homey.
(c) It will help her feed Brightbill.
(d) It will give her something to do.

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

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

13. What does Loudwing say when Roz asks her about Brightbill swallowing pebbles?
(a) She tells Roz to instruct Brightbill never to swallow pebbles again.
(b) She tells Roz that geese often swallow a few pebbles in order to aid their digestion.
(c) She tells Roz to make sure Brightbill is not swallowing anything besides food because it could hurt him.
(d) She tells Roz that they must take Brightbill to the island's doctor immediately.

14. According to the narrator, what good comes from the deaths of the animals who have frozen over the winter?
(a) Their remaining family members remember not to take each other for granted.
(b) There is more food for everyone else.
(c) Their bodies nourish the soil and help create an amazing spring bloom.
(d) Roz is able to make coats out of them to keep surviving animals warm.

15. Which animal does Rockfish the pike grab by the tail, causing the animal to call for help?
(a) Tawny.
(b) Paddler.
(c) Digdown.
(d) Brightbill.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Longneck ask if anyone has questions before the geese begin their journey, what does Roz ask?

2. What reason does Roz give for telling the animals to be careful around fire?

3. What reason does Roz give Brightbill for wanting to wait to show him the robot graveyard?

4. Where do Roz and Brightbill spend most of their time when he is still a gosling?

5. What does Roz do while her guests are asleep in the Nest each night?

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