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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 does Roz say to her pursuers when they threaten her?
(a) "Why are you mad at me?"
(b) "I do not understand you."
(c) "Please go away."
(d) "What did I do?"

2. What does Loudwing tell Roz she will have to do if she wants the gosling to survive?
(a) Keep him away from the foxes.
(b) Give him a name.
(c) Act like his mother.
(d) Build him a nest in a tree.

3. From what creature does Roz learn the value of camouflage?
(a) A stick insect.
(b) A chameleon.
(c) A butterfly.
(d) A firefly.

4. While Roz finishes activating, she explains what she will do when she is not needed. What does she say she will do?
(a) Stay out of the way.
(b) Climb back into her crate.
(c) Build a second robot to keep her company.
(d) Turn herself off.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When asked where she has come from, what does Roz say?

2. What sound do Roz's pursuers hear that makes them leave her?

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

4. When Roz observes Pinktail the opossum play dead and evade a badger, what do Roz and Pinktail talk about once the badger leaves?

5. When Roz begins to clean off the sticky substance, what happens to thwart her efforts?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 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?

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

5. 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?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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