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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it impossible for Roz to participate in the following day's occasion with Brightbill?
(a) Because if water gets into her body, it will cause damage.
(b) Because she has to stay at home and recharge.
(c) Because the rite of passage requires that parents stay behind.
(d) Because robots cannot fly.

2. When Digdown gives a speech one night, he says that if he could live his life all over again, he would spend more time doing a certain activity. What is that activity?
(a) Helping others.
(b) Swimming in the ocean.
(c) Spending more time by a warm fire.
(d) Spending more time with his family.

3. 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.

4. The night before the migration of the geese, what old routine do Roz and Brightbill return to?
(a) Brightbill crawls into Roz's arms and she rocks him to sleep.
(b) Roz keeps watch outside while Brightbill stays in by the fire.
(c) Brightbill wakes up every hour and asks Roz for a drink of water and a snack.
(d) Brightbill sleeps outside while Roz stays in by the fire.

5. What words does Brightbill speak after the first time he flies?
(a) "Can I fly across the ocean now?"
(b) "I want to do it again!"
(c) "I'm a natural!"
(d) "What can I learn next?"

6. Who saves the baby hare trapped in the fire within the second lodge?
(a) Swooper.
(b) Broadfoot.
(c) Chitchat.
(d) Roz.

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

8. After others sharing what they think Roz's purpose is, she says that perhaps she does know what her purpose is. What does she say she thinks her purpose may be?
(a) To be a good mother to Brightbill.
(b) To love everyone.
(c) To help others.
(d) To serve humans.

9. What is the name for a squirrel nest?
(a) A drey.
(b) A den.
(c) A barringer.
(d) A burrow.

10. What material does Mr. Beaver use to construct a new foot for Roz?
(a) Wood.
(b) Stone.
(c) Dead robot parts.
(d) Pressed flowers.

11. Where do Roz and Brightbill spend most of their time when he is still a gosling?
(a) In the bears' cave.
(b) Their garden.
(c) At the robot graveyard.
(d) The Great Meadow.

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

13. When Roz tells Brightbill about her winter, what is the one development during the winter that she says had surprised her the most?
(a) That the other animals had come to really like her.
(b) That she had nearly forgotten her worries about Brightbill.
(c) That she had lived through the winter.
(d) That the cold killed some of their animal friends.

14. Who is the first freezing animal who comes to join Roz in her newly repaired lodge?
(a) Digdown.
(b) Swooper.
(c) Tawny.
(d) Chitchat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Brightbill's favorite place to fly?

2. Which of the goslings becomes the leader of the other goslings during their flying expeditions?

3. What sound always makes Brightbill fall fast asleep?

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

5. What materials does Roz use to patch the hole that has developed in the roof of the Nest?

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