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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karana tell Tutok that proves she trusts the Aleut girl?
(a) Where Rontu sleeps
(b) Her secret name
(c) Where she stores her food and weapons
(d) Where her headland home is located

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

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

4. Where did the large dog leader of the pack come from?
(a) The Aleut ship
(b) The far side of the Island of the Blue Dolphins
(c) A small ravine
(d) Floated in on the surf one day after a storm

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

6. What does Karana think the world would be like without animals?
(a) A hungrier place
(b) A quieter place
(c) A less dangerous place
(d) An unhappy place

7. 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.

8. What does Karana make with yucca twine?
(a) A wind curtain for the cave entrance
(b) A new skirt
(c) A rope
(d) A small fishing net

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

10. What does Karana see in Black Cave?
(a) Skeletons of wild dogs
(b) Skeletons of sea otters
(c) A seated human skeleton
(d) Skeleton of a sea elephant

11. What does Karana do on sunny days after the Aleuts leave?
(a) She goes swimming to cool off.
(b) She goes to the hidden cave where it is cool.
(c) She wears her cormorant dress and necklace and goes for walks with Rontu along the cliff.
(d) She stays in the house because the sun is so bright.

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

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

14. What does the otter's name, Mon-a-nee mean?
(a) Little Boy with Large Eyes
(b) Long Whiskers
(c) Little Boy with Long Whiskers
(d) Glossy Nose

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Rontu rushing forward to attack?

2. What does Karana do to pass the time during the winter that the Aleuts are on the island?

3. Where do gulls make their nests?

4. How is Karana able to keep the two birds close by as friends?

5. What happens on the evening Karana returns to her headland home?

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