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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 Roz decide to do when she realizes that the Nest is at its capacity?
(a) She adds a second story to the Nest.
(b) She sets a rotating schedule of who can stay in the lodge which night of the week.
(c) She decides to build a greater number of lodges.
(d) She leaves the Nest to make room for more animals.

2. What is Roz's reply when Brightbill asks if he can stay on the island with Roz rather than migrating with the other geese?
(a) She says she does not think that is a good idea and that she thinks he should migrate with the flock.
(b) She says that he will die if he stays.
(c) She says that she will ask Loudwing.
(d) She says that if he can get five other geese to agree to stay as well, that Roz will let Brightbill stay.

3. When Roz tells Brightbill about her winter, what is the one development during the winter that she says had surprised her the most?
(a) That she had lived through the winter.
(b) That the other animals had come to really like her.
(c) That she had nearly forgotten her worries about Brightbill.
(d) That the cold killed some of their animal friends.

4. How does Roz find out why Rockmouth is so angry?
(a) She puts him by himself in a small pond and waits for him to explain himself.
(b) She threatens him with letting the bears loose on him unless he tells her the source of his anger.
(c) Swooper tells her.
(d) Paddler tells her.

5. What specific speech pattern does Chitchat use whenever she speaks?
(a) Run-on sentences.
(b) A lisp.
(c) Pig Latin.
(d) A stutter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Brightbill say when Roz asks him why he has not yet visited the robot graveyard?

2. After Roz fixes the hole in the roof of the Nest, she shouts something out into the night. What does she shout?

3. Before plants are installed in the garden, what favor does Tawny ask of the neighbors?

4. Who is the first freezing animal who comes to join Roz in her newly repaired lodge?

5. What reason does Roz give Brightbill for wanting to wait to show him the robot graveyard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Roz do when she discovers that the harsh winter conditions have killed many of the island's creatures while she has been hibernating?

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

8. When Brightbill asks about his birth mother, what does he say after Roz reveals the truth?

9. What benefits does the garden provide to the island community?

10. What kinds of sensory details does the author use to describe autumn?

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