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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. When Roz begins to clean off the sticky substance, what happens to thwart her efforts?
(a) Bees land on the sticky substance and thus stick to Roz as well.
(b) The sticky substance causes her hands to stick together.
(c) The sticky substance gets onto all of her body parts as she tries to clean it off.
(d) Pine needles land on the sticky substance and thus stick to Roz as well.

2. What sound do Roz's pursuers hear that makes them leave her?
(a) Their mother calling them.
(b) A boom of thunder.
(c) Roz's warning siren.
(d) A rattlesnake's rattle.

3. 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 Truce.
(d) The Dawn Peace.

4. Before Roz leaves the camouflaged creature, she speaks to it. What does she say?
(a) "See you later."
(b) "Be at peace."
(c) "Let's meet again soon."
(d) "Thank you."

5. Which of Roz's robot tools does she use at first, but then turn off when she decides it is inappropriate in this environment?
(a) Her night vision feature.
(b) Her wheels.
(c) Her distance calculator.
(d) Her headlights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the news shared by the leader of the first dawn meeting readers are privy to?

2. When Roz is observing the processes of childbirth and rearing, what species does she NOT observe?

3. What prey does Roz see foxes stalk?

4. Where do most of the island's residents gather during the hour of peace at dawn?

5. What is the problem when Roz's tries to live in a cave?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. When the bears growl menacingly at her, what is Roz's reply to them and why does this exchange fail to help the situation be resolved?

4. After Roz constructs a makeshift nest and climbs a tree, she watches a scene unfold below her and learns something from an opossum that directly informs her ideas about raising the goose inside the egg she has found. What does she learn and how does she apply that learning?

5. What is the Dawn Truce?

6. 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?

7. What event occurs that is an impetus to ending Roz's loneliness and alienation?

8. What is ironic about Loudwing's advice to Roz regarding how "easy" motherhood is?

9. How do the sounds that Roz makes contrast with the sounds already occurring within the forest prior to her arrival?

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

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