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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is on the beach when Karana returns?
(a) The body of the young bull
(b) The body of the old bull
(c) The bodies of both the young and old bulls
(d) The bodies of two cows

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Without chores to be done in early summer, what do Karana and Rontu do?

2. How is Karana able to keep the two birds close by as friends?

3. Who jumps overboard from the ship?

4. What is the reason for a fence at the new house?

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

(see the answer key)

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