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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. Who is the first freezing animal who comes to join Roz in her newly repaired lodge?
(a) Digdown.
(b) Tawny.
(c) Swooper.
(d) Chitchat.

2. What pseudo-feeling does Roz experience when she watches Brightbill practice his new skill?
(a) Pride.
(b) Anticipation.
(c) Worry.
(d) Gratitude.

3. When Brightbill's first lengthy bout of flying is over, he is tired and pleased, but expresses one regret. What is that regret?
(a) He wishes that his biological parents were alive to see him fly.
(b) He wishes Roz could fly wiith him.
(c) He wishes he were better at flying.
(d) He wishes Chitchat could fly with him.

4. Before plants are installed in the garden, what favor does Tawny ask of the neighbors?
(a) To aerate the soil but digging their claws and hooves into it.
(b) To gather seeds from the forest.
(c) To leave their droppings on the garden.
(d) To install an irrigation system using the river as the source of the water.

5. When Digdown gives a speech one night, he says that if he could live his life all over again, he would spend more time doing a certain activity. What is that activity?
(a) Helping others.
(b) Swimming in the ocean.
(c) Spending more time by a warm fire.
(d) Spending more time with his family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the deer family get in return for Tawny's help in constructing the garden?

2. When Brightbill begins to speak to everyone who will listen, what does he say at the start of each conversation?

3. What is NOT an event Brightbill tells within the long story of the migration when he returns?

4. Once Roz and Brightbill and Chitchat makes friends with all of the creatures of the forest, what is the one type of creature they still view as dangerous to them?

5. When Roz tells Brightbill about her winter, what is the one development during the winter that she says had surprised her the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brightbill's curiosity influence his behavior?

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

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. When Roz and Brightbill decide they can no longer stand wondering about what will happen when they press Roz's deactivation button and they press it, what happens?

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

7. How does a community effort result in a drastic reduction of any further freezing deaths that winter?

8. What unusual sight do Roz and Brightbill see one day during one of Brightbill's practice flight sessions on the ridge?

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

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

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