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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 asked where she has come from, what does Roz say?
2. What does Roz do to survive the threat she encounters on the mountaintop?
3. Why does Loudwing send Roz to speak to Mr. Beaver?
4. What object does Roz bring to Mr. Beaver as a gift to accompany her request for help?
5. What does Roz say to her pursuers when they threaten her?
Short Essay Questions
1. What lesson does Roz learn from the stick insect and how does she acknowledge his ability to help her?
2. What does getting hit by a wave teach both Roz and the reader?
3. What does Roz reveal about herself once she begins to speak after being activated?
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. What important element of Roz's programming does the reader learn about when she is unable to defend herself during the bear attack?
6. How does Roz apply the lesson she learns from the stick insect?
7. 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?
8. What types of creatures does Roz first study to begin her gradual acquisition of the many languages spoken on the island?
9. What does Roz do when she realizes that the gosling is hungry but that she does not know what to feed it?
10. What is Roz's first major act in service of another creature?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explain how the narrator's use of the second person point of view helps to shape the impact of the novel. Include concrete details to support your claim.
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
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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