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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. How many crates of robots are there in total?

2. When asked where she has come from, what does Roz say?

3. What objects begin to fall from the trees, annoying Roz and causing her to look for a new place to stay?

4. What type of animal does Roz observe in order to improve her method of cliff-climbing?

5. What type of bird does Roz see circling above the foothills?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Roz become activated once her crate arrives on shore?

2. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?

3. What lesson does Roz learn from the stick insect and how does she acknowledge his ability to help her?

4. When the bears growl menacingly at her, what is Roz's reply to them and why does this exchange fail to help the situation be resolved?

5. What is ironic about Loudwing's advice to Roz regarding how "easy" motherhood is?

6. 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?

7. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?

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. Though the beavers are the experts when it comes to building, there is one main thing they cannot do. What is it and how does the author demonstrate that all of us have our own unique areas of expertise?

10. What learned tactic does Roz apply to the situation with the bears?

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

Find instances of foreshadowing within the novel and create a claim stating what overall purpose the literary device of foreshadowing serves in relation to the author's intended effects on the reader. Use concrete details from each instance to prove your larger claim about foreshadowing.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance of the final party Roz throws the night before the RECOs arrive on the island. What theme is most prominent within the author's relation of this event and what is his message regarding this theme? Choose concrete details from the novel to support your claim.

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