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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the villagers fear?
(a) Return of the Aleuts
(b) The raging sea storms from the south.
(c) The water springs flooding parts of the village.
(d) Losing to wreckage the few remaining skin canoes

2. As a storm rages for six days, what is Karana doing?
(a) Making almost 100 spearheads
(b) Visiting others in Ghalas-at
(c) Nothing
(d) Killing three wild dogs

3. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?
(a) That the villagers ate all the bass the night before
(b) He has to think of his own people and refuses to share the bass
(c) That there is plentiful bass near the beach in the early spring
(d) That the bass are spoiled and not edible

4. Why does Chief Kimki reverse his decision?
(a) Santa Catalina Island cannot be reached by just a single squad of men.
(b) The newly-made canoes can hold all the villagers and supplies.
(c) The men resent the women being hunters, which is the work of men.
(d) A large feast will wipe out the food presently held at the village.

5. What is the captain's name from the Aleutian ship?
(a) Captain Aleut
(b) Captain Mitriff
(c) Captain Ghalas
(d) Captain Orlov

Short Answer Questions

1. What is swimming ahead of the canoe?

2. Why does the night watchman sound the alarm in the village?

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

4. What is Karana doing in the Ghalas-at village?

5. What is Karana following across the small hills and a valley, club in hand?

(see the answer key)

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