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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. How many crates of robots are there in total?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Scores.
(c) Dozens.
(d) Hundreds.

2. What constitutes Roz's version of sleep?
(a) She sings lullabies to herself.
(b) She stands motionless, thinking about her goals for the next day.
(c) She switches off her nonessential programs.
(d) She lies on the ground and looks up at the stars.

3. After camouflaging herself for the first time, where does Roz settle in?
(a) On the riverbank.
(b) In a cave.
(c) Among some rocks.
(d) Among the swamp grasses.

4. 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 burrow underground.
(c) She tries to hide.
(d) She tries to jump into a tree.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the first dawn meeting described by the narrator, who leads the meeting?

2. What new place does Roz spot that looks like a perfect new place for her to stay?

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

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

5. What are the first words Roz speaks to the animals in her own language?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. What important element of Roz's programming does the reader learn about when she is unable to defend herself during the bear attack?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the Dawn Truce?

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