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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the shape of the island resemble when a person stands on a rise in the middle?
(a) A roughly-drawn rectangle
(b) An imperfectly-drawn circle
(c) A dolphin lying on its side
(d) Two separate pieces, linked by a reef

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

3. What injury does Karana incur as she trips to avoid the old bull on the slope?
(a) Her left eye is injured.
(b) She gets a nosebleed.
(c) Her leg is injured.
(d) Her elbow is injured.

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

5. What is swimming ahead of the canoe?
(a) Blue dolphins
(b) Three sea elephants with huge tusks
(c) Sea otters
(d) Nothing

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

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

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

9. Why is life in the village slowed and very quiet?
(a) The water for the village is now polluted.
(b) The food supply is quickly running down.
(c) The memory of those who are gone is a burden in the hearts of all.
(d) The return of the hunters is days overdue.

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

11. What is a reason Karana delays her shot at the sea elephant?
(a) Two bulls are rushing toward her.
(b) She does not know where to put the first arrow.
(c) The cows sound an alarm from the water.
(d) The cows are obstructing her shot.

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

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

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

15. What is Karana's decision about her future?
(a) She will be a spearhead-maker for the village
(b) To leave the village and live on a sheltered, flat rock
(c) Decides to have many children to increase the Ghalas-at population
(d) To become the first woman leader of Ghalas-at

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a sai-sai?

2. What does Karana realize is happening while she is paddling the canoe?

3. Why does each person of Ghalas-at have two names?

4. How do the men of the village of Ghalas-at prepare for the coming ship?

5. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?

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