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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is it Karana makes after many tries?
(a) A bow and some arrows
(b) A fishing spear
(c) A winter cloak from sea elephant hides
(d) A net to catch a sea elephant

5. Why don't Ulape and Karana throw rocks at the Aleuts from the cliff?
(a) They want the Aleuts to stay on the island.
(b) They like Captain Orlov and don't want to hurt him.
(c) They plan to tell the Aleuts to leave by sunrise.
(d) They are afraid of hitting a man of the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?

2. Who vainly packs earrings and blue clay into the luggage?

3. What is a law in Ghalas-at?

4. What is Captain Orlov's reaction to Chief Chowig's refusal of one chest as payment?

5. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?

(see the answer key)

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