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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 lights a signal fire.
(d) She pounds her fists on the ground and cries.

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

3. Why does Karana not use her arrows to help Rontu in the meadow?
(a) The Aleuts are out of range.
(b) She has lost all but two.
(c) Rontu has the advantage, to disrupt would only mean another fight later.
(d) The gulls will swarm and kill her.

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

5. What does Karana do when she sees Tutok turning away and leaving through the brush?
(a) Karana jumps to her feet, runs down the ravine, and calls Tutok's name.
(b) Karana smiles, glad that Tutok is leaving.
(c) Karana throws a spear at Tutok.
(d) Karana quietly hides in the bushes.

6. Spring time on The Island of the Blue Dolphins brought lots of these?
(a) Gray mice
(b) Dolphins
(c) Flowers
(d) Sea elephants

7. What does Karana throw into the water when she sees the devilfish?
(a) Dead scallops
(b) Small devilfish
(c) Dead starfish
(d) A spear

8. What does Karana do with the yellow, wild dog after she catches him?
(a) She makes a cage to keep him in.
(b) She fashions a muzzle for him, so he won't bite her.
(c) She ties his legs together to prevent him from running away.
(d) She ties him in the yard, giving him food and water.

9. How is Karana able to keep the two birds close by as friends?
(a) Clips the wings
(b) Always kept in the cave
(c) Tethered by kelp string
(d) Always kept caged

10. What does Karana see in the early morning light at the Aleut camp?
(a) A war party assembling on the beach
(b) Fire on the kelp beds
(c) Her canoe afloat in the cove
(d) A girl cooking on the beach

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

12. What does Karana see the gulls dropping on the rocks?
(a) Abalone
(b) Starfish
(c) Sai-sai
(d) Scallops

13. How long does the earthquake last?
(a) A few minutes
(b) An hour
(c) All night
(d) All morning

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

15. Why does Karana decide she needs a new canoe?
(a) To catch the faster devilfish
(b) To paddle away from The Island of the Blue Dolphins
(c) To flee if the Aleuts return
(d) The old canoe is too lightweight

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rontu looking at over the edge of the reef?

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

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

4. Why doesn't Karana move to the other end of the island while the Aleuts are hunting?

5. What does Karana find when she goes to the tide pool to see Mon-a-nee after three days?

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