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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is said to Roz upon the completion of her first selfless act?
(a) "Thanks for nothing."
(b) "That's a good way to make friends."
(c) "I owe you one."
(d) "I never thought a robot could be kind."

2. For one hour each day at dawn, all animals are safe because of their agreed-upon lack of hunting during this time. What is this hour called?
(a) The Morning No-Hunt.
(b) The Hour of Peace.
(c) The Dawn Peace.
(d) The Dawn Truce.

3. When Roz begins to understand how the deer speak, what does she say about their speech?
(a) That they use such quiet voices that she does not understand how they hear one another.
(b) That they speak a different language than the elk.
(c) That the adults use one pattern of speech and the fawns use another.
(d) That they mostly use their bodies to speak.

4. What is the news shared by the leader of the first dawn meeting readers are privy to?
(a) That food needs to be shared more equally.
(b) That there is a shortage of clean water on the island.
(c) That there has been too much infighting recently.
(d) That there is a monster on the island.

5. When Roz encounters an old goose, what is the first question she asks the goose?
(a) "What shall I name this gosling?"
(b) "What can I feed this gosling?"
(c) "Will you take the gosling?"
(d) "Why is this gosling so noisy?"

Short Answer Questions

1. When Roz begins to clean off the sticky substance, what happens to thwart her efforts?

2. As Roz looks at the geese she has killed, what sound does she hear?

3. What do the otters do when Roz emerges from her crate?

4. What new place does Roz spot that looks like a perfect new place for her to stay?

5. After camouflaging herself for the first time, where does Roz settle in?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?

2. Besides informing her experience of motherhood, what other area of life does Pinktail's advice help Roz with?

3. When the narrator shares that upon Roz's arrival on the island, she feels at home and feels that she belongs, what does he list among the facts of which Roz is unaware?

4. What pseudo-emotion does Roz feel when she sees that the island creatures have made it through the storm just fine?

5. What important element of Roz's programming does the reader learn about when she is unable to defend herself during the bear attack?

6. What is the Dawn Truce?

7. What does Roz realize once the sun fully charges her battery and what does this realization cause her to do?

8. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?

9. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?

10. What is Roz's first major act in service of another creature?

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