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

2. Fink the fox makes a request of Roz. What does he ask of her?
(a) He asks her to build a fire in his den.
(b) He asks her to brush his coat.
(c) He asks her to go back to the robot graveyard from whence she came.
(d) He asks her to hunt for his breakfast.

3. What is one object that Roz does NOT use camouflage to resemble?
(a) A log.
(b) A rock.
(c) A clump of seaweed.
(d) A straw hut.

4. When Roz is observing the processes of childbirth and rearing, what species does she NOT observe?
(a) A chick.
(b) A snake.
(c) A gosling.
(d) A deer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first selfless act Roz performs that begins to end her period of alienation?

2. What does Roz say to her pursuers when they threaten her?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the Dawn Truce?

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

8. 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?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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