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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chief Kimki reverse his decision?
(a) The newly-made canoes can hold all the villagers and supplies.
(b) Santa Catalina Island cannot be reached by just a single squad of men.
(c) A large feast will wipe out the food presently held at the village.
(d) The men resent the women being hunters, which is the work of men.

2. Why does each person of Ghalas-at have two names?
(a) One name is a birth name and never used. The other is a magic name.
(b) The real name is secret so it doesn't lose its magic, and the other is the common name.
(c) One name is for visitors and the other for tribe use.
(d) The real name is only for family and the other for everyone else.

3. Why does Chief Chowig advise the people not to visit the Aleut's camp?
(a) He says that the Aleuts might kidnap women and children.
(b) He says that the Aleut's ways and language are not their ways
(c) He warns them that the Aleuts carry disease.
(d) He tells them that the Aleuts have powerful, evil magic.

4. What is the name of Karana's six year old brother?
(a) Orlov
(b) Ghalas-at
(c) Chowig
(d) Ramo

5. Where does Chief Chowig dispatch several young men?
(a) To make more spears
(b) To the beach to watch the Aleuts so they couldn't sail away without paying the agreed price
(c) To the cliffs to watch for more Aleut ships
(d) To the Aleut camp with beads

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Karana vow to kill as she sits awake all night?

2. How does Karana describe her brother's eyes?

3. What are the beds of kelp close to the shore used for?

4. What is Captain Orlov's reaction to Chief Chowig's refusal of one chest as payment?

5. What is Karana using to make a fence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What events take place after Chief Chowig demands the rest of the chests be brought to shore before the otter pelts are loaded onto the ship?

2. When there were people in Ghalas-at, Karana would be up before sunrise and busy with many things. What does she do now that she is the only person on the island?

3. How does Karana build a fence to protect her from the wild dogs?

4. After Karana finishes building her home, she decides it is time to kill the wild dogs on the island. What does she need to do the job?

5. What fills Karana with happiness the morning after she returns to the island in the leaking canoe?

6. How do the men of Ghalas-at village react when the Aleut ship sails into Coral Cove?

7. After the tribe recovers the school of white bass that are stranded on the rocky ledge, two of the Aleuts come to ask for some. What does Chief Chowig tell them?

8. Overcome with fear that her brother will be abandoned on the island, what does Karana do? What is the outcome?

9. Why isn't the autumn and winter peaceful in Ghalas-at, even though there is plenty of food for everyone?

10. Karana moves her home to a high rock ledge, but the wild dogs continue to circle below. She decides to go against the tribe's taboo about women making weapons. What does she fear will happen if she makes the weapons?

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