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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do sea otters teach their babies to swim?
(a) The mother lets them hold onto her flippers until they learn to swim.
(b) The mother carries them into the water and swims back to shore.
(c) The mother pushes them into the sea, hoping they will swim.
(d) The mother brushes the babies away with her flippers, swimming around them until the babies follow.

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

3. What does Karana see in the cave?
(a) Markings of a huge fire long ago
(b) Bones of previous inhabitants
(c) Stone cuts of animals carved on the walls
(d) Weapons from long ago

4. How does Karana describe her brother's eyes?
(a) His eyes are as green as the sea with an intelligent look
(b) His eyes miss little. They are large and black like a lizard and often look sleepy
(c) His eyes are bright blue like the dolphins and always wide open
(d) His eyes are as brown as the roots that grow on the island

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the beds of kelp close to the shore used for?

2. What is making the loud, thunderous noise on the hot day when Karana paddles her canoe around the reef?

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

4. What name does Ramo choose as he tells Karana he is a man and the tribal chief?

5. Why are the headlands the better choice for a house?

(see the answer key)

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