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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. What object does Roz bring to Mr. Beaver as a gift to accompany her request for help?

2. Where do most of the island's residents gather during the hour of peace at dawn?

3. When Roz begins to clean off the sticky substance, what happens to thwart her efforts?

4. What is the first element of bird life that Roz studies in order to understand the birds better?

5. What does Mr. and Mrs. Beaver's son Paddler say about Roz taking on the role of Brightbill's mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are Roz's decisions about how to use her headlights in the wilderness significant to the story?

2. Why does Roz's crate arrive unharmed upon the island when the other four floating crates do not?

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

4. What does Roz reveal about herself once she begins to speak after being activated?

5. Besides informing her experience of motherhood, what other area of life does Pinktail's advice help Roz with?

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 does Roz realize once the sun fully charges her battery and what does this realization cause her to do?

8. 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?

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

10. 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?

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 juxtaposition does the author create between the pastoral and the metropolitan and what message is ultimately sent regarding the conflict between these two elements? Use concrete details from the novel to prove your claim.

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of instinct within the novel and how does the topic of instinct shape the messages sent by the author? Prove your claim using concrete details from the novel.

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