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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?
(a) The Girl with the Long Black Hair
(b) Chief Kimki
(c) Ramo
(d) Chief Chowig

2. How do the constant winds affect the land?
(a) They bring dolphins closer in to the beach.
(b) They make movement about the island quite difficult.
(c) They cause the hills to be polished smooth and the trees to be small and twisted
(d) They prevent the construction of any permanent shelters.

3. Why is Karana searching the beach sand at Coral Cove?
(a) Gathering kelp to make body coverings
(b) Looking for the chest the Aleuts brought ashore
(c) Gathering stones for making spearheads
(d) Looking for live sea otter that wash ashore

4. 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) That the villagers ate all the bass the night before
(c) He has to think of his own people and refuses to share the bass
(d) That the bass are spoiled and not edible

5. What is the only thing that makes Karana sad?
(a) Ulape loves Nanko.
(b) She loses her skirt of yucca fibers.
(c) Ramo disobeys her.
(d) The Island of the Blue Dolphins is the only place she has ever known.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the major topic of discussion about leaving Ghalas-at?

2. Why is life in the village slowed and very quiet?

3. What does the shape of the island resemble when a person stands on a rise in the middle?

4. Why does Chief Kimki reverse his decision?

5. What is it Karana makes after many tries?

(see the answer key)

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