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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is making the loud, thunderous noise on the hot day when Karana paddles her canoe around the reef?
(a) The earthquake
(b) A tidal wave
(c) Cannon fire
(d) Thunder and lightning

2. What does Rontu do when Karana asks him to bark at the sea gulls?
(a) He jumps up like he used to do, and barks.
(b) He walks over to her, lies down at her feet, and dies.
(c) He gets up and barks feebly.
(d) He looks up and barks for her a final time.

3. What does the pack leader do when he exits the cave?
(a) Stares menacingly at Karana
(b) Runs to the head of the pack
(c) Runs back in to the cave
(d) Runs off by himself

4. What is the sound the unknown birds are making that Karana likes?
(a) Reep reep
(b) Cooing
(c) Tweeting
(d) Screaming

5. What does Karana do to pass the time during the winter that the Aleuts are on the island?
(a) She talks to Rontu and makes arrows.
(b) She dries smelts and shellfish.
(c) She makes string for her fishing spear, hooks of abalone shell and earrings.
(d) She makes a robe of feathers.

6. When Karana reaches the meadow, what does she see standing on the mound?
(a) Hundreds of gulls
(b) A pack of dogs
(c) Aleuts
(d) Rontu

7. What is Rontu doing on days Karana works on the canoe?
(a) Watching Karana from the cliff
(b) Sleeping back at the house
(c) Chasing pelicans on the beach
(d) Running with the dog pack

8. What do the men from the ship find when they come ashore?
(a) Rontu-Aru and the caged birds
(b) Karana's fire and canoe
(c) Karana's headland home
(d) Karana's black stone necklace

9. How do sea otters teach their babies to swim?
(a) The mother pushes them into the sea, hoping they will swim.
(b) The mother lets them hold onto her flippers until they learn to swim.
(c) The mother brushes the babies away with her flippers, swimming around them until the babies follow.
(d) The mother carries them into the water and swims back to shore.

10. What does Karana do with the wounded sea otters that the Aleut hunters leave behind?
(a) She tries to push them back into the water.
(b) She kills them and uses them for food.
(c) She leaves them to die on the shore.
(d) She kills them with her spear, so they won't suffer.

11. Where does Karana bury Rontu?
(a) Atop the cliff
(b) On the beach
(c) In his old lair
(d) On the headland

12. What does Karana store in a place below the headland in case the Aleuts returned?
(a) Two canoes, snares, colored stones, skins
(b) A spear, bow quiver of arrows and dried shellfish
(c) Animal skins, clothing, necklaces
(d) Extra clothing, the black stone necklace, and the caged birds

13. What does Karana do when she no longer hears the man from the ship calling to her?
(a) She laughs because she wanted the man to leave.
(b) She begins to run toward where the man had been, shouting to him.
(c) She pounds her fists on the ground and cries.
(d) She lights a signal fire.

14. What does the big gray dog do when Karana finds him at the rocks after 2 days?
(a) Tries to run off to the brush
(b) Lays motionless
(c) Howls in pain
(d) Charges at Karana

15. Where do gulls make their nests?
(a) On small islands
(b) High on cliffs, in hollow places in the rocks
(c) In the reeds by the shore
(d) High in the tops of trees Leaves, grass, and vines

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Karana deny living in the cave when the Aleut girl asks her?

2. Why does Karana name the yellow, wild dog Rontu-Aru?

3. Why doesn't Karana bring Rontu with her to check out the Aleut camp?

4. Where does Rontu go on the day he dies?

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

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