Wild Robot Written Assessment

Circle two sentences that best support the conclusion that Roz learned how to survive.

• Roz played dead after she saw the opossum do it.

• Roz camouflaged herself as a bush.

• Roz climbed a tree to escape the bears.

• Roz told Brightbill about what happened to his parents.

• Brightbill led the flock of geese into a greenhouse.

What detail from the book best supports the conclusion that Roz is not programmed for violence?

• She ran away from the RECO robots.

• She fell on the goose family and accidentally killed them.

• She built lodges for the animals to stay warm.

• She taught the animals to build fires.

Read the paragraph. What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Reader, it must seem impossible that our robot could have changed so much. Maybe the RECOs were right. Maybe Roz was defective, and some glitch in her programming had caused her to accidentally become a wild robot. Or maybe Roz was designed to think and learn and change; she had simply done those things better than anyone could have imagined.

• Roz is defective.

• Roz was better than all other robots.

• The RECOs were right.

• Thinking, learning, and changing is possible for anyone.

Which key event is missing from the summary?

Roz emerges from the crate and begins her life on the island, learning from watching the animals. While she learns to becomes a mother to this gosling, she begins to make friends with the animals on the island. In the fall, Brightbill, the gosling, migrates. Roz is left behind. At first she shuts down, but wakes up to find that the animals need her. She helps them survive through the winter. Brightbill and the flock of geese return along with some other robots who want to take Roz back to civilization. The animals protect Roz, but Roz decides she needs to return on her own in order to protect her friends and family.

• Roz accidentally kills a family of geese, but finds one surviving gosling.

• Roz helps Fink.

• Brightbill learns to fly.

• Rockmouth tries to eat Brightbill.

What conclusion can be supported by the passage?

RECO 1 Turned his face to Roz and spoke in a quiet, garbled voice. "More RECOs will come for you. And if you destroy them, still more will come. The makers will not rest until all the missing robots have been retrieved."

• Roz will leave the island.

• Roz will hide.

• The makers want all the robots back.

• The makers do not care what happens to the robots.

Which sentence from the passage best supports your answer on number 5?

• RECO 1 turned his face to Roz and spoke in a quiet, garbled voice.

• More RECOs will come for you.

• And if you destroy them, still more will come.

• The makers will not rest until all missing robots have been retrieved.

Which word best describes Roz?

• afraid

• kind

• clean

• Clumsy

Which sentence from the book best supports your answer in number 7?

• If any more animals showed up, they'd be left out in the cold, but Roz was not about to let that happen.

• Roz was going to camouflage herself.

• Roz stomped into the cave, and then she stomped right back out.

• “Simply give me a task and I will complete it.”

Creatures who should have been hibernating deep underground had been roused by this vicious weather. What does the word roused most likely mean?

• sleeping

• woke up

• tired

• scared

There was an eerie glow in that part of the forest, and a thick plume of smoke began rising up from the snowy treetops. Pick two choices. The word choice of eerie suggests...

• The forest is scary and something is hiding in it.

• The forest looks like it is on fire and readers know it is dangerous.

• The forest looks strange and mysterious and readers wonder what is wrong.

• The narrator thinks it is in the morning.

• The narrator doesn’t know what is causing the smoke.