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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. What is a law in Ghalas-at?
(a) Women of the tribe cannot make weapons.
(b) None are permitted to leave Ghalas-at after dark.
(c) Men of the tribe distribute the cooked food.
(d) All must participate in the yearly sea otter hunt.

2. What does Karana see in the cave?
(a) Bones of previous inhabitants
(b) Weapons from long ago
(c) Stone cuts of animals carved on the walls
(d) Markings of a huge fire long ago

3. What do the villagers fear?
(a) The raging sea storms from the south.
(b) Losing to wreckage the few remaining skin canoes
(c) The water springs flooding parts of the village.
(d) Return of the Aleuts

4. Why is life in the village slowed and very quiet?
(a) The return of the hunters is days overdue.
(b) The water for the village is now polluted.
(c) The memory of those who are gone is a burden in the hearts of all.
(d) The food supply is quickly running down.

5. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?
(a) The Girl with the Long Black Hair
(b) Chief Chowig
(c) Chief Kimki
(d) Ramo

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the number of men in the Ghalas-at tribe change suddenly?

2. What name does Ramo choose as he tells Karana he is a man and the tribal chief?

3. What is Karana's decision about her future?

4. Why does Ramo get up in the darkness and leave Ghalas-at alone?

5. What does Karana compare the Aleut ship to as it comes nearer to the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the sea elephants help Karana decide where to build her new home?

2. Does Chief Chowig accept the black chest of beads as full payment from Captain Orlov and the Aleuts? Explain.

3. Describe the preparations the people of the village make in case the Aleuts return and they have to escape?

4. 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?

5. Why didn't Karana want to return to the Island of the Blue Dolphins after her canoe starts to leak?

6. 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?

7. How does Karana describe the Aleutian ship as it nears the island?

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

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

10. Karana leaves the island in one of the hidden canoes. She is forced to turn back to the island after the canoe starts to leak badly. On the way back, she has two good fortunes. Describe what these good fortunes are.

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