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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happens on the evening Karana returns to her headland home?
(a) The earth begins to move from an earthquake
(b) A hurricane blows fierce winds
(c) The wild dogs attack Rontu-Aru
(d) Lightning strikes her home

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

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

5. What is Rontu looking at over the edge of the reef?
(a) Sails on the far horizon
(b) Scallops on the kelp
(c) Blue dolphins in the bay
(d) A giant devilfish

6. What does Karana make for Tutok as a gift?
(a) A cape of cormorant feathers
(b) Pierced stone earrings
(c) A circlet of abalone shells for her hair
(d) Seal skin sandals

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

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

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

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 with her spear, so they won't suffer.
(c) She kills them and uses them for food.
(d) She leaves them to die on the shore.

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

12. Why does Karana attempt to catch a devilfish?
(a) The flesh is white, tender, and very sweet.
(b) There are many uses for the tough skin
(c) They eat huge quantities of the fish she needs for food.
(d) These are too dangerous to humans swimming close to the beach.

13. Where do Karana and Rontu-Aru go during the earthquake?
(a) They go to the Black Cave.
(b) They get into the canoe and paddle away from land.
(c) They lay on the ground next to each other.
(d) They crawl into their headland home.

14. What happens after the incident in the meadow?
(a) Gulls are never again seen on the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
(b) The Aleuts board their ship and sail away.
(c) Wild dogs never return to the headlands.
(d) Rontu disappears for one week.

15. Why does Karana deny living in the cave when the Aleut girl asks her?
(a) Karana doesn't like the girl.
(b) Karana fears for her life.
(c) Karana doesn't want the girl visiting.
(d) Karana does not trust the girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the Aleuts is Karana afraid will find her?

2. How long does it take to make a canoe trip around The Island of the Blue Dolphins?

3. What does Karana do with the yellow, wild dog after she catches him?

4. Who is in the ship sailing to the island from the north?

5. How does the island seem to Karana after Tutok leaves?

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