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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 reason does Loudwing give for her belief that it will be a miracle if Brightbill survives?
(a) He has a robot for a mother.
(b) He is a runt and an orphan.
(c) He has no brothers or sisters.
(d) He does not have a way to stay warm.

2. What does Mr. and Mrs. Beaver's son Paddler say about Roz taking on the role of Brightbill's mother?
(a) That his own mother should help Roz since she is such a good mother to him.
(b) That she is a very good robot for taking care of Brightbill.
(c) That he does not see how the gosling can survive with Roz as his mother.
(d) That it will be very difficult for her to learn how to be a mother.

3. Upon discovering one unharmed egg from the broken goose nest, what does Roz do?
(a) She picks it up and cradles it in her hand.
(b) She cooks it.
(c) She sets it back inside the splintered nest.
(d) She gives it to Fink the fox.

4. After descending the mountain, what is the first thing Roz does?
(a) Looks for an energy source.
(b) Cleans herself.
(c) Looks for new friends.
(d) Fixes her broken foot.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of bird does Roz see circling above the foothills?

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

3. What object does Roz bring to Mr. Beaver as a gift to accompany her request for help?

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

5. When Roz encounters the inhabitants of her new choice of home, what does she shout to them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Dawn Truce?

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

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

4. What does Roz reveal about herself once she begins to speak after being activated?

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

6. Though the beavers are the experts when it comes to building, there is one main thing they cannot do. What is it and how does the author demonstrate that all of us have our own unique areas of expertise?

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

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

9. What does getting hit by a wave teach both Roz and the reader?

10. 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?

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