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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 two metamorphic processes does Roz watch happen during her camouflaged hiding?
(a) Ducks becoming platypuses and tadpoles becoming frogs.
(b) Tadpoles becoming frogs and caterpillars becoming butterflies.
(c) Tadpoles becoming toads and moths becoming butterflies.
(d) Caterpillars becoming moths and tadpoles becoming frogs.

2. Why does Loudwing send Roz to speak to Mr. Beaver?
(a) So he can use his tail to grind corn that Brightbill can eat.
(b) So he can build her a shelter for Brightbill.
(c) So he can tell her how to raise an orphan.
(d) So he can carve a bed out of wood for Brightbill to sleep in.

3. 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 is carpeted with pine needles.
(c) It overlooks the water.
(d) It has a cave next to it.

4. When a voice emerges from the goose egg, saying, "Mama! Mama!" how does Roz at first reply?
(a) "I killed your mother."
(b) "What kinds of things do mothers do?"
(c) "What is a mama?"
(d) "I am not your mother."

5. What type of bird does Roz see circling above the foothills?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Robins.
(c) Vultures.
(d) Eagles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As Roz descends from the mountaintop, what causes a clanging sound?

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

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

5. Why does Roz's first choice of escape strategy from the cave fail?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What is the Dawn Truce?

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

9. 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?

10. 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?

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