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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 the bird makes noises at Roz, what does she say to the bird?
(a) "Can we be friends?"
(b) "Please go away."
(c) "I do not understand you."
(d) "Please do not hurt me."

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

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

4. As Roz descends from the mountaintop, what causes a clanging sound?
(a) Acorns being thrown by squirrels bouncing off her body.
(b) Her robot feet slipping on the wet rocks.
(c) Raindrops hitting her body.
(d) A foghorn from a ship in the distance.

5. When Roz finds a patch of ground she likes, what does she see as being its third good quality in addition to being flat and open?
(a) It has a large boulder on which she can sit.
(b) It has a cave next to it.
(c) It is carpeted with pine needles.
(d) It overlooks the water.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of bird begins to circle Roz's head when it feels she is threatening its nest?

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

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

5. After the very first time Roz experiences a fall, what does she do immediately afterward?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?

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

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

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