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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 an old goose, what is the first question she asks the goose?
2. What is the first selfless act Roz performs that begins to end her period of alienation?
3. What is said to Roz upon the completion of her first selfless act?
4. What type of bird does Roz see circling above the foothills?
5. What is the news shared by the leader of the first dawn meeting readers are privy to?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. When Roz notices a particularly well-attended meeting in the Great Meadow one morning, what happens during the meeting?
3. What event occurs that is an impetus to ending Roz's loneliness and alienation?
4. 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?
5. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?
6. What is Roz's first major act in service of another creature?
7. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?
8. 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?
9. What does Roz reveal about herself once she begins to speak after being activated?
10. What is the Dawn Truce?
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
What purpose do the darker events in the novel, such as the shooting of Longneck, the freezing deaths of many animals, and the burning of the lodge, serve in the context of its larger message? Use concrete details from some of these scenes to support your claim.
Essay Topic 3
What is the author's message regarding the feminine identity and motherhood? Prove your claim with concrete details from the novel.
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