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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 strategy does Roz try first in order to escape the inhabitants of her chosen home?
(a) She tries to outrun them.
(b) She tries to hide.
(c) She tries to burrow underground.
(d) She tries to jump into a tree.

2. What does Roz do to survive the threat she encounters on the mountaintop?
(a) She constructs an umbrella to shield herself from the sun.
(b) She explains to the eagles that she means them no harm.
(c) She crouches just inside the lip of the volcano.
(d) She holds fast to a pine tree.

3. What new place does Roz spot that looks like a perfect new place for her to stay?
(a) A cave.
(b) A wooden hut.
(c) A swamp.
(d) A rainforest.

4. What does the narrator say is the one thing Roz's pursuers want to do to her above all things?
(a) Cover her in mud.
(b) Understand her.
(c) Kill her.
(d) Hug her.

5. Why is it difficult for Roz to walk in the forest?
(a) Because there are too many upright trees in her way.
(b) Because the forest floor is uneven.
(c) Because she moves better in water.
(d) Because animals keep getting in her way.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the one thing Roz DOES know at the time she realizes she is on an island?

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?

3. What two metamorphic processes does Roz watch happen during her camouflaged hiding?

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

5. Before Roz leaves the camouflaged creature, she speaks to it. What does she say?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?

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

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

6. What does Roz do when she realizes that the gosling is hungry but that she does not know what to feed it?

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

8. 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?

9. How does Roz become activated once her crate arrives on shore?

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

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