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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 the deer family get in return for Tawny's help in constructing the garden?
(a) Her family gets to feed there each evening.
(b) Roz sends Brightbill over to play with Tawny's fawns to keep them busy.
(c) Roz babysits Tawny's fawns whenever she wants.
(d) Roz helps to clean off the buck's velvet during the appropriate season.

2. What is NOT one safety feature added to the rebuilt lodge?
(a) A supply of water for emergencies.
(b) A deeper fire pit.
(c) A taller ceiling.
(d) A moat around the lodge.

3. What reason does Roz give for telling the animals to be careful around fire?
(a) She says that smoke from a fire can cause coughing.
(b) She says that fire can cause overheating.
(c) She says that fire can turn deadly in a moment's time.
(d) She says that fire can destroy a shelter in a moment's time.

4. When Brightbill asks Roz if she will ever die, what is her reply?
(a) "Never."
(b) "I would never leave you."
(c) "I think so."
(d) "Only after you do."

5. How old is Crag the turtle?
(a) 93 years old.
(b) 74 years old.
(c) 82 years old.
(d) 53 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who teaches the goslings in their new skill lessons for the celebrated day?

2. Why are even the animals who hibernate in danger during this winter?

3. What does Roz say when Brightbill asks her if she too has instincts?

4. Where is Brightbill's favorite place to fly?

5. What sound always makes Brightbill fall fast asleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Brightbill become a target of teasing for the other goslings?

2. What one regret does Brightbill express surrounding his ability to fly?

3. What happens to cause Loudwing's advice to Roz that she let Brightbill cool off and have some time alone since youngsters of his age tend to be moody?

4. What does Roz say about the universe when Chitchat asks about it during one of their stargazing sessions?

5. Why are the animals unsure if they want another lodge after one of them burns down?

6. What is the effect of Roz's line at the end of Chapter 52 when she asks, "How bad could winter be?"

7. What does Brightbill say his feelings are about leaving for the migration just before his departure?

8. What feelings does Brightbill express when he calls his family a strange one?

9. What is the significance of the revelation that among the migratory birds who will have to leave the island are the geese?

10. How does Roz feel about the relationship between Brightbill and Chitchat?

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