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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 Brightbill tell Chitchat that makes her speechless?
(a) That he wants to be friends with her.
(b) That he cannot understand her.
(c) That he wants to teach her how to build a fire.
(d) That he thinks she has a nice bushy tail.

2. Why are even the animals who hibernate in danger during this winter?
(a) Because the winter has come so quickly that the hibernating animals were unable to grow enough extra fur to keep them warm.
(b) Because all of the animals' food stores have become frozen and inaccessible.
(c) Because the weather has been so extreme that they have been roused from hibernation.
(d) Because the caves and burrows in which they hibernate have filled with ice and snow.

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

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. When Roz and Brightbill have questions about the migration, to whom do they go for answers?

4. Why are the otters no longer afraid of Roz when they encounter her again near the robot graveyard?

5. Brightbill is different in one way from the other goslings his age. What is that difference?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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 is significant about the events that transpire on Swimming Day?

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

8. 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?

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

10. When Roz and Brightbill seek out Loudwing to tell them about migration, what does she report?

(see the answer keys)

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