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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does a white puff of smoke come from?
(a) A fire the villagers make on the cliffs
(b) An Aleut bonfire on the beach
(c) Cannon fire by the Aleut ship
(d) Burning the hollow log

2. Why is Karana leaving the raging battle of sea elephants?
(a) Her elbow is swollen and throbbing.
(b) She has vision in only one eye.
(c) Both sea elephants are mortally wounded.
(d) Darkness has fallen.

3. Who is the reason someone jumps overboard?
(a) Ramo
(b) Matasaip
(c) Nanko
(d) Karana

4. Who does Karana vow to kill as she sits awake all night?
(a) The men camped in Coral Cove
(b) A pack of wild dogs
(c) Chief Matasaip
(d) Nanko

5. How did the name, Island of the Blue Dolphins, possibly originate?
(a) From an ancient song of the Ghalas-at village
(b) From the single dolphin once seen offshore
(c) From the earliest people to visit the island
(d) From the reflective coloring of the dolphins at sunset

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Karana describe her brother's eyes?

3. What is the law Karana's father tells her about?

4. What is the weather like after the fierce storms of winter?

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

(see the answer key)

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