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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Brightbill's first lengthy bout of flying is over, he is tired and pleased, but expresses one regret. What is that regret?
(a) He wishes Chitchat could fly with him.
(b) He wishes he were better at flying.
(c) He wishes that his biological parents were alive to see him fly.
(d) He wishes Roz could fly wiith him.

2. What does the deer family get in return for Tawny's help in constructing the garden?
(a) Roz helps to clean off the buck's velvet during the appropriate season.
(b) Her family gets to feed there each evening.
(c) Roz sends Brightbill over to play with Tawny's fawns to keep them busy.
(d) Roz babysits Tawny's fawns whenever she wants.

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

4. When Longneck ask if anyone has questions before the geese begin their journey, what does Roz ask?
(a) She asks when the geese will return.
(b) She asks if she can have one more hug from Brightbill.
(c) She asks how she is supposed to survive without her son.
(d) She asks where Brightbill should fly in the formation since he does not have other family members flying with him.

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

6. 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 lived through the winter.
(c) That she had nearly forgotten her worries about Brightbill.
(d) That the cold killed some of their animal friends.

7. What does Roz tell Chitchat when she asks the meaning of the word "celestial"?
(a) "Celestial means carrying the characteristics of a cell."
(b) "Celestial means having a certain measure of grace."
(c) "Celestial means something that is in outer space."
(d) "Celestial means something that hangs in the air."

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

9. 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.

10. 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) Transports him back to his river home.
(b) Tells him to adapt to his new surroundings and to stop trying to hurt other animals.
(c) Builds him his own special pond.
(d) Smashes the beaver dam.

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

12. What does Chitchat tell Brightbill on the day of migration that makes him smile?
(a) She says that she will think of new jokes while he is gone so she has a lot saved up for when he returns.
(b) She says that she has been trying to grow wings so that she could join the migration.
(c) She says that she will miss him terribly.
(d) She says she will look after Roz for him.

13. How old is Chitchat when Brightbill first meets her?
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Twelve and a half weeks.
(d) One year.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it impossible for Roz to participate in the following day's occasion with Brightbill?

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

3. What pseudo-feeling does Roz experience when she watches Brightbill practice his new skill?

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

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

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