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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why are the villagers calmed after the alarm?
(a) The young warrior chief Kimka does not come onto the island.
(b) The ship has white sails rather than the red of the Aleuts.
(c) A huge warship bypasses the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
(d) The wild dogs are finally driven off.

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

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

5. What was the problem the tribe encountered when Captain Mitriff came to the village to hunt years before?
(a) He and his men did all the hunting and did not give the tribe any of the catch.
(b) He beat the men of the village, forcing them to wait on him and all the crew members.
(c) He had the men of the village do all the hunting from one moon to the next without stopping.
(d) He enslaved the villagers and forced them to hunt for a year's time.

6. What is it that is now making Karana feel happy?
(a) The canoe is repaired.
(b) A new source of fresh water is found.
(c) The rocks, the kelp, the tides, the Island of the Blue Dolphins
(d) The blue dolphins are swimming in Coral Cove.

7. What does Karana find in Ghalas-at when she returns?
(a) Ramo has killed a wild dog
(b) Ravaging wild dogs
(c) Nanko and Ulape kissing
(d) Ramo is sleeping

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

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

10. 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 a birth name and never used. The other is a magic name.
(c) The real name is only for family and the other for everyone else.
(d) One name is for visitors and the other for tribe use.

11. Why don't Ulape and Karana throw rocks at the Aleuts from the cliff?
(a) They are afraid of hitting a man of the village.
(b) They want the Aleuts to stay on the island.
(c) They plan to tell the Aleuts to leave by sunrise.
(d) They like Captain Orlov and don't want to hurt him.

12. Why did Ramo want to go back to Ghalas-at?
(a) Because Karana tells him to get valuable seal skins to sell later.
(b) To get his fishing spear
(c) Because Kimka tells him to get more fresh water for the voyage
(d) He is afraid.

13. What does Karana compare the Aleut ship to as it comes nearer to the island?
(a) A dolphin skimming the surface of the sea
(b) A red whale
(c) A very large canoe
(d) A gull with folded wings

14. Who jumps overboard from the ship?
(a) Nanko
(b) Karana
(c) Ramo
(d) Matasaip

15. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?
(a) Ramo
(b) The Girl with the Long Black Hair
(c) Chief Chowig
(d) Chief Kimki

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final deal that Chief Chowig accepts from Captain Orlov?

2. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?

3. What does Karana fear if she violates the laws of Ghalas-at?

4. What do the villagers fear?

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

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