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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karana fear if she violates the laws of Ghalas-at?
(a) A wind storm, an earthquake, or tidal wave will destroy the village
(b) She will be flogged in the center of the village
(c) She and her family will have to leave the village
(d) She alone will have to leave the village

2. Why have white men come to the Island of the Blue Dolphins?
(a) To repair the ship
(b) To take the villagers away from Ghalas-at
(c) To catch the plentiful fish
(d) To construct better skin canoes for the villagers

3. Why does the night watchman sound the alarm in the village?
(a) He sees by the dawning light what he thinks is an Aleut ship.
(b) There are men and a cook fire on the beach.
(c) Wild dogs are ravaging the scarce food supply.
(d) Chief Kimka is paddling toward the Island of the Blue Dolphins.

4. What is the reason for a fence at the new house?
(a) Deter the red foxes that steal
(b) Karana has always wanted a fence.
(c) A windbreak during high wind storms
(d) Keep out wild dogs.

5. What is Karana following across the small hills and a valley, club in hand?
(a) Nanko and Ramo and three wild dogs
(b) A pack of wild dogs
(c) A group of men that came up from Coral Cove
(d) Three men carrying the canoe away from Ghalas-at

6. How do villagers feel about leaving the Island of the Blue Dolphin?
(a) Thankful for not starving on the island
(b) They trust their tribesman Nanko.
(c) Regretful that Kimka is dead
(d) Fearful about the destination, nonetheless happy

7. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?
(a) To keep a lookout on the sea for any enemy ships
(b) To get a better view of the village and any uprisings from the tribe
(c) Because the beach is small and almost floods when the tide comes in
(d) To be able to look at all parts of the island's coast for sea otters

8. How do the constant winds affect the land?
(a) They bring dolphins closer in to the beach.
(b) They cause the hills to be polished smooth and the trees to be small and twisted
(c) They make movement about the island quite difficult.
(d) They prevent the construction of any permanent shelters.

9. Why does each person of Ghalas-at have two names?
(a) The real name is secret so it doesn't lose its magic, and the other is the common name.
(b) One name is for visitors and the other for tribe use.
(c) The real name is only for family and the other for everyone else.
(d) One name is a birth name and never used. The other is a magic name.

10. Why is Karana constructing shelves in the rock face?
(a) Safekeeping of the valuables from the wooden trunk
(b) To keep food away from gray mice
(c) Storage of drinking water
(d) Storage of spear points

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

12. What is the decision of Chief Kimki?
(a) Every villager is assigned a task and the women become hunters.
(b) A large feast will be held to celebrate the good fortune of Ghalas-at.
(c) The newly-made skin canoes are not to be used yet.
(d) A squad of men will row to Santa Catalina immediately.

13. What is the only thing that makes Karana sad?
(a) Ramo disobeys her.
(b) She loses her skirt of yucca fibers.
(c) The Island of the Blue Dolphins is the only place she has ever known.
(d) Ulape loves Nanko.

14. As a storm rages for six days, what is Karana doing?
(a) Killing three wild dogs
(b) Making almost 100 spearheads
(c) Nothing
(d) Visiting others in Ghalas-at

15. Why is Karana searching the beach sand at Coral Cove?
(a) Looking for the chest the Aleuts brought ashore
(b) Looking for live sea otter that wash ashore
(c) Gathering stones for making spearheads
(d) Gathering kelp to make body coverings

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a reason Karana delays her shot at the sea elephant?

2. How do the sea otters affect humans?

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

4. Even the smallest stored canoe is too heavy to lift, so what is Karana's solution?

5. How do the Aleuts act as they prepare to leave the island?

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