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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Roz do while her guests are asleep in the Nest each night?
(a) She gathers food outside.
(b) She prepares creature comforts for Brightbill's return.
(c) She shuts herself down.
(d) She tends the fire.

3. What causes Roz to propose a perpetual truce within the Nest?
(a) She notices that everyone's hunger is growing.
(b) Swooper suggests it to her.
(c) After a fox eats a hare right in front of the fire, she worries that more deaths will occur in the Nest.
(d) She looks around and sees predators lying with prey but wonders how long the peace can last.

4. When asked about her purpose, what is Roz's immediate reply?
(a) She says that she does not believe she has a purpose.
(b) She says that her purpose is to be Brightbill's mother.
(c) She says that her purpose is to be the best robot she can be.
(d) She says that her purpose is to love.

5. Where is Brightbill's favorite place to fly?
(a) Over the ocean.
(b) Above the robot graveyard.
(c) Above the Great Meadow.
(d) Up on the grassy ridge.

6. What materials does Roz use to patch the hole that has developed in the roof of the Nest?
(a) Mud, seashells, and twigs.
(b) Rope, branches, and robot parts.
(c) Honey, tar, and feathers.
(d) Branches, mud, and leaves.

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

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

9. When Roz finds out that Rockmouth has been angry due to the beaver dam blocking him from his river home, what does she do?
(a) Smashes the beaver dam.
(b) Builds him his own special pond.
(c) Tells him to adapt to his new surroundings and to stop trying to hurt other animals.
(d) Transports him back to his river home.

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

11. When autumn arrives and the animals begin to prepare for winter, the scaly animals look for new home and the feather animals grow more feathers. What do the furry animals do?
(a) They grow more fur.
(b) They rush to build warmer homes.
(c) They swim in the cold water once a day to begin acclimating to the coming cold temperatures.
(d) They gather food for storing.

12. What does Roz say when Brightbill asks her if she too has instincts?
(a) She says that if she is glad she does not have instincts, since they would have kept her from adopting Brightbill.
(b) She says that she does not have instincts.
(c) She says that she does not know what instinct are.
(d) She says she does and that they help her stay alive.

13. 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 holds him upside down and hopes the pebbles will fall out of his mouth.
(c) She gives him cod liver oil in hopes that they will help him digest the pebbles.
(d) She shakes him to see if she can hear the pebbles rattling around.

14. 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) Spending more time by a warm fire.
(b) Swimming in the ocean.
(c) Spending more time with his family.
(d) Helping others.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Crag the turtle?

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 does Brightbill tell Chitchat that makes her speechless?

4. Who is the first freezing animal who comes to join Roz in her newly repaired lodge?

5. What does Brightbill do when Roz forbids him to see the robot graveyard?

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