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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. For one hour each day at dawn, all animals are safe because of their agreed-upon lack of hunting during this time. What is this hour called?
2. What sound do Roz's pursuers hear that makes them leave her?
3. What does Roz do to survive the threat she encounters on the mountaintop?
4. Why does Roz's first choice of escape strategy from the cave fail?
5. Once she spots the perfect place on top of the mountain, how long does it take Roz to hike there?
Short Essay Questions
1. What important element of Roz's programming does the reader learn about when she is unable to defend herself during the bear attack?
2. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?
3. When the narrator shares that upon Roz's arrival on the island, she feels at home and feels that she belongs, what does he list among the facts of which Roz is unaware?
4. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?
5. What learned tactic does Roz apply to the situation with the bears?
6. What does Roz do when she realizes that the gosling is hungry but that she does not know what to feed it?
7. What is the Dawn Truce?
8. Besides informing her experience of motherhood, what other area of life does Pinktail's advice help Roz with?
9. What pseudo-emotion does Roz feel when she sees that the island creatures have made it through the storm just fine?
10. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of knowledge. Choose a concept from the basic tenets of epistemology and create a claim applying this concept to the novel. Prove your claim with both concrete details from the novel and concrete details from your research regarding epistemology.
Essay Topic 2
How does the author go about creating a robotic character with whom readers can identify? Use concrete details from the novel to support your points and to provide reasoning for your claim.
Essay Topic 3
Explain how the narrator's use of the second person point of view helps to shape the impact of the novel. Include concrete details to support your claim.
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