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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Karana deny living in the cave when the Aleut girl asks her?
(a) Karana doesn't want the girl visiting.
(b) Karana doesn't like the girl.
(c) Karana fears for her life.
(d) Karana does not trust the girl.

2. When Karana reaches the meadow, what does she see standing on the mound?
(a) A pack of dogs
(b) Aleuts
(c) Rontu
(d) Hundreds of gulls

3. What does Karana need to hunt wild dogs?
(a) Decaying bird flesh
(b) Poison sticks
(c) Larger bow and sharper arrows
(d) Several snares

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Karana decide she needs a new canoe?

2. What does Karana see in the cave?

3. Who greets the large Russian man after he says that he comes in peace?

4. After fishing, as Karana climbs the cliff what does she hear?

5. What are the things that make the first day of house building a good omen?

(see the answer key)

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