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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. When Roz encounters the inhabitants of her new choice of home, what does she shout to them?
2. What two metamorphic processes does Roz watch happen during her camouflaged hiding?
3. What strategy does Roz use that works to drive her pursuers away?
4. When Roz observes Pinktail the opossum play dead and evade a badger, what do Roz and Pinktail talk about once the badger leaves?
5. What is said to Roz upon the completion of her first selfless act?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How does Roz become activated once her crate arrives on shore?
3. What pseudo-emotion does Roz feel when she sees that the island creatures have made it through the storm just fine?
4. Besides informing her experience of motherhood, what other area of life does Pinktail's advice help Roz with?
5. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?
6. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?
7. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?
8. What is Roz's first major act in service of another creature?
9. What does Roz realize once the sun fully charges her battery and what does this realization cause her to do?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the author's message regarding the feminine identity and motherhood? Prove your claim with concrete details from the novel.
Essay Topic 2
What strategies does the author use in order to communicate Roz's emotions to the reader even when the narrator is simultaneously insisting that Roz cannot feel emotion due to her status as a robot? How is the use of these strategies crucial to the success of the author's message reaching the reader? Choose concrete details from the novel to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
What is the novel's message regarding capitalism and what methods does the author use to get across this message? Prove your claim with concrete details from the novel.
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