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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 Roz observes Pinktail the opossum play dead and evade a badger, what do Roz and Pinktail talk about once the badger leaves?
(a) Acting.
(b) Badgers.
(c) The winter.
(d) Raising children.

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) Act like his mother.
(c) Give him a name.
(d) Build him a nest in a tree.

3. What catches the attention of the otters to make them come near to Roz?
(a) The smashed robot parts glinting in the sun.
(b) The wet rocks sparkling in the sun.
(c) The sound of Roz telling them her name.
(d) The glowing light coming from Roz's crate.

4. What is the first element of bird life that Roz studies in order to understand the birds better?
(a) Their songs.
(b) Their feeding habits.
(c) Their patterns of flight.
(d) Their methods of raising their offspring.

5. What sound do Roz's pursuers hear that makes them leave her?
(a) Their mother calling them.
(b) A rattlesnake's rattle.
(c) A boom of thunder.
(d) Roz's warning siren.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Loudwing send Roz to speak to Mr. Beaver?

2. While Roz finishes activating, she explains what she will do when she is not needed. What does she say she will do?

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

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

5. Why is it difficult for Roz to walk in the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?

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

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. 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?

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

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

8. What learned tactic does Roz apply to the situation with the bears?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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