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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which utensil Karana is making?
(a) Tongs for cooking on the open fire
(b) A wooden spoon
(c) A kelp screen for a strainer
(d) A stone cooking pan

2. Why are the male sea elephants sitting separate from each other?
(a) To encourage the female to mate
(b) They are bad-tempered, jealous, and quick to fight.
(c) To protect the herd community from every direction
(d) They need plenty of space to sleep in the sunshine

3. What does Karana fear if she violates the laws of Ghalas-at?
(a) She alone will have to leave the village
(b) A wind storm, an earthquake, or tidal wave will destroy the village
(c) She will be flogged in the center of the village
(d) She and her family will have to leave the village

4. What is Karana's decision about her future?
(a) To become the first woman leader of Ghalas-at
(b) Decides to have many children to increase the Ghalas-at population
(c) She will be a spearhead-maker for the village
(d) To leave the village and live on a sheltered, flat rock

5. What does the young male do that starts a fight?
(a) Eats the fish that belongs to the others
(b) Mates with an older cow
(c) Moves toward the cows that belong to an old bull
(d) Takes another's spot in the sunshine

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the reason someone jumps overboard?

3. What does Karana see in Black Cave?

4. What does Karana do to pass the time during the winter that the Aleuts are on the island?

5. How do the Aleuts act as they prepare to leave the island?

(see the answer key)

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