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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the biggest loss Karana suffers in the earthquake?
(a) Her two caged birds
(b) The stores of food
(c) Her headland home
(d) The canoes

2. What is Karana gathering in the canoe and hanging out to dry?
(a) Starfish
(b) Kelp
(c) Sweet red abalone
(d) Shells

3. How does the island seem to Karana after Tutok leaves?
(a) Less dangerous
(b) More peaceful
(c) Back to normal
(d) Very quiet

4. Who walks into Karana's camp as she is holding up the skirt she just made?
(a) A wild dog
(b) An Aleut hunter
(c) The Aleut captain
(d) An Aleut girl

5. What is Karana doing in the darkness of night?
(a) Watching for movement on the beach
(b) Making sharp spear points
(c) Moving belongings from the house to the cave
(d) Preparing the canoe to flee from The Island of the Blue Dolphins

6. What does Karana take after the incident before leaving the reef?
(a) Flesh cuttings from the beached blue dolphin
(b) Scallops
(c) Abalone
(d) Her spear point, spear and sinew line

7. What is a stronger feeling to Karana than the happy times on the island?
(a) The wish to remain with Rontu-Aru and her animal friends
(b) A wish to be with people, hearing their voices and laughter
(c) The wish to keep the sea otters safe from the men on the ship
(d) The wish to stay where her brother and father are buried

8. After fishing, as Karana climbs the cliff what does she hear?
(a) Thousands of gulls passing overhead
(b) Nothing, an eerie complete silence
(c) The Aleuts down on the beach
(d) Dogs fighting

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

10. Why doesn't Karana bring Rontu with her to check out the Aleut camp?
(a) Karana doesn't want Rontu to get hurt.
(b) The Aleut dogs will smell Rontu.
(c) Rontu will slow her down.
(d) Rontu will bark at the Aleuts.

11. How does Karana know Spring has come?
(a) The sun is warmer on the headlands.
(b) The sky is full of small, black, darting birds.
(c) The sea elephants return to the beaches.
(d) The kelp turns black as the devilfish spray.

12. What does Karana do for four nights prior to sleeping?
(a) Chases the wild dogs away
(b) Tosses stones at the vicious pack leader
(c) Makes more sharp spearheads
(d) Goes to the flat rock to sleep in safety

13. How does Karana keep track of the time she has spent on the island?
(a) She cuts a mark in a pole beside her door of all the moons that have passed.
(b) She sews one bead on her dress for each moon that has passed.
(c) She puts one shell in a box for each moon that has passed.
(d) She draws a line on the wall of her house with charcoal for each moon that has passed.

14. What does Karana see as she gathers supplies to repair her canoe?
(a) A devil fish
(b) The wild dogs circling her home
(c) Three blue dolphins jumping out of the water
(d) The sail of a ship

15. Without chores to be done in early summer, what do Karana and Rontu do?
(a) Go on canoe trips
(b) Swim in Coral Cove
(c) Lay on the sunny beach
(d) Take walks to Tall Rock

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karana see in the early morning light at the Aleut camp?

2. What does Karana do to pass the time in the cave while she and Rontu are hiding from the Aleuts?

3. As Karana looks down at the empty harbor, what is she thinking?

4. What does Karana do with the wounded sea otters that the Aleut hunters leave behind?

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

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