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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. 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 install an irrigation system using the river as the source of the water.
(d) To leave their droppings on the garden.

2. Which animal does Rockfish the pike grab by the tail, causing the animal to call for help?
(a) Brightbill.
(b) Tawny.
(c) Paddler.
(d) Digdown.

3. What words does Brightbill speak after the first time he flies?
(a) "What can I learn next?"
(b) "Can I fly across the ocean now?"
(c) "I want to do it again!"
(d) "I'm a natural!"

4. What causes Roz to propose a perpetual truce within the Nest?
(a) After a fox eats a hare right in front of the fire, she worries that more deaths will occur in the Nest.
(b) She notices that everyone's hunger is growing.
(c) Swooper suggests it to her.
(d) She looks around and sees predators lying with prey but wonders how long the peace can last.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Roz and Brightbill get so curious about Roz's button that they press it?

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

3. 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?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What is significant about the events that transpire on Swimming Day?

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

5. When Brightbill asks if he can skip migration and instead remain on the island with Roz during the winter, Roz says she does not think that is a good idea and that he should migrate with the flock. What are the reasons behind this pronouncement?

6. What does Crag the turtle reveal about the environmental observations he has made over the years?

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

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

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

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

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