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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is swimming ahead of the canoe?
(a) Nothing
(b) Blue dolphins
(c) Three sea elephants with huge tusks
(d) Sea otters
2. What is Karana's decision about her future?
(a) Decides to have many children to increase the Ghalas-at population
(b) To become the first woman leader of Ghalas-at
(c) To leave the village and live on a sheltered, flat rock
(d) She will be a spearhead-maker for the village
3. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?
(a) That there is plentiful bass near the beach in the early spring
(b) He has to think of his own people and refuses to share the bass
(c) That the bass are spoiled and not edible
(d) That the villagers ate all the bass the night before
4. Why is Karana leaving the raging battle of sea elephants?
(a) Darkness has fallen.
(b) She has vision in only one eye.
(c) Her elbow is swollen and throbbing.
(d) Both sea elephants are mortally wounded.
5. Why did the Russians come to Coral Cove?
(a) They came to take over the village and its resources.
(b) They came to hunt sea otter and camp on the island.
(c) They came to settle in the village.
(d) They came to take slaves back to their homeland.
Short Answer Questions
1. How do the sea otters affect humans?
2. When the wild dogs are heard barking, who is being attacked?
3. What does Karana compare the Aleut ship to as it comes nearer to the island?
4. What is Karana doing in the Ghalas-at village?
5. What does Karana need to hunt wild dogs?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why the ship won't turn back toward the island so that Ramo can come on board?
2. Karana leaves the island in one of the hidden canoes. She is forced to turn back to the island after the canoe starts to leak badly. On the way back, she has two good fortunes. Describe what these good fortunes are.
3. When there were people in Ghalas-at, Karana would be up before sunrise and busy with many things. What does she do now that she is the only person on the island?
4. Karana cannot sleep the night before she decides to hunt sea elephants. What does she think about as she lies awake during the night?
5. Describe the preparations the people of the village make in case the Aleuts return and they have to escape?
6. How does Karana describe the Aleutian ship as it nears the island?
7. How many men come in the Aleut ship under the command of Captain Orlov. What do they want from the people of Ghalas-at village?
8. Overcome with fear that her brother will be abandoned on the island, what does Karana do? What is the outcome?
9. How do the men of Ghalas-at village react when the Aleut ship sails into Coral Cove?
10. Summarize the description Karana gives of the Island of the Blue Dolphins?
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