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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens after the incident in the meadow?
(a) The Aleuts board their ship and sail away.
(b) Wild dogs never return to the headlands.
(c) Rontu disappears for one week.
(d) Gulls are never again seen on the Island of the Blue Dolphins.

2. What is swimming ahead of the canoe?
(a) Sea otters
(b) Three sea elephants with huge tusks
(c) Blue dolphins
(d) Nothing

3. What is the major topic of discussion about leaving Ghalas-at?
(a) Santa Catalina Island is far off and has very little water.
(b) The tuna and abalone stock is becoming depleted.
(c) Chief Chowig says the water at Ghalas-at has become polluted.
(d) The new skin canoes are less sea worthy than the old ones.

4. Why did Ramo want to go back to Ghalas-at?
(a) To get his fishing spear
(b) Because Karana tells him to get valuable seal skins to sell later.
(c) He is afraid.
(d) Because Kimka tells him to get more fresh water for the voyage

5. What does Karana do to pass the time in the cave while she and Rontu are hiding from the Aleuts?
(a) She makes extra weapons.
(b) She sleeps and cries.
(c) She makes a skirt from cormorant feathers.
(d) She plays with Rontu.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rontu do when Karana asks him to bark at the sea gulls?

2. Which utensil Karana is making?

3. What is slowing the construction of the house?

4. How does Karana keep track of the time she has spent on the island?

5. How do the constant winds affect the land?

(see the answer key)

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