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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. Why is it difficult for Roz to walk in the forest?
2. What is the first pseudo-emotion that Roz feels upon her activation?
3. What do the otters do when Roz emerges from her crate?
4. When Roz begins to clean off the sticky substance, what happens to thwart her efforts?
5. What does the narrator say is the one thing Roz's pursuers want to do to her above all things?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does getting hit by a wave teach both Roz and the reader?
2. After Roz constructs a makeshift nest and climbs a tree, she watches a scene unfold below her and learns something from an opossum that directly informs her ideas about raising the goose inside the egg she has found. What does she learn and how does she apply that learning?
3. How does Roz become activated once her crate arrives on shore?
4. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?
5. How do the sounds that Roz makes contrast with the sounds already occurring within the forest prior to her arrival?
6. What event occurs that is an impetus to ending Roz's loneliness and alienation?
7. What is ironic about Loudwing's advice to Roz regarding how "easy" motherhood is?
8. What important element of Roz's programming does the reader learn about when she is unable to defend herself during the bear attack?
9. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the novel's message regarding acceptance and belonging? Discuss how these themes are shaped by the events within the novel and provide concrete details to support your claim.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Explicate Digdown the groundhog's speech within the lodge in Chapter 58. What main theme is expressed within his speech and how does this theme work within the context of the novel? Back up your claim with concrete details from the novel.
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