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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who vainly packs earrings and blue clay into the luggage?
(a) Ulape
(b) Matasaip
(c) The Girl with the Long Black Hair
(d) Karana

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

4. Why does Karana need to leave the shelter after five days?
(a) To go to the spring
(b) To watch for the ship
(c) To gather some food
(d) The fence is broken

5. What do the crew members of the ship do after it lands in Coral Cove?
(a) They bring gifts and trinkets to the people of the village.
(b) They attack the Ghalas-at village.
(c) Six men row to shore and one of them jumps out shouting.
(d) They offer strange foods to the village people.

6. Why are the male sea elephants sitting separate from each other?
(a) To protect the herd community from every direction
(b) They are bad-tempered, jealous, and quick to fight.
(c) To encourage the female to mate
(d) They need plenty of space to sleep in the sunshine

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

8. Who greets the large Russian man after he says that he comes in peace?
(a) Chief Chowig
(b) Won-a-pa-lei
(c) Roma
(d) Ghalas-at

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

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

11. Why is a new house necessary?
(a) The old house is destroyed in a storm.
(b) Karana needs better shelter from the winds and the storms.
(c) Ramo now needs a house of his own.
(d) The wild dogs are becoming too aggressive.

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

13. 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 spear points
(d) Storage of drinking water

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Karana find in Ghalas-at when she returns?

3. What awaits Karana upon her return to the cave?

4. What does Karana do in the cave?

5. Why does Ramo get up in the darkness and leave Ghalas-at alone?

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