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

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) She loses her skirt of yucca fibers.
(d) Ulape loves Nanko.

2. Why is Karana putting a canoe in the water at Coral Cove?
(a) To flee the loneliness of The Island of the Blue Dolphins
(b) To spear a sea otter
(c) To escape from attack of the wild dogs
(d) To spear a sea elephant

3. Even the smallest stored canoe is too heavy to lift, so what is Karana's solution?
(a) Ask Ramo to help
(b) Clear rocks and make a slippery kelp slide straight to the water
(c) Await a very high tide
(d) Shorten the length of the canoe

4. Why does Chief Chowig advise the people not to visit the Aleut's camp?
(a) He tells them that the Aleuts have powerful, evil magic.
(b) He says that the Aleuts might kidnap women and children.
(c) He warns them that the Aleuts carry disease.
(d) He says that the Aleut's ways and language are not their ways

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Karana vow to kill as she sits awake all night?

2. Why does each person of Ghalas-at have two names?

3. Who does Nanko think runs ahead of the group and boards the ship?

4. How do villagers feel about leaving the Island of the Blue Dolphin?

5. Why does Ramo get up in the darkness and leave Ghalas-at alone?

(see the answer key)

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