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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 the final deal that Chief Chowig accepts from Captain Orlov?
(a) Three parts for the Chief and one part for Captain Orlov
(b) Payment in gold for hunting off the coast of Coral Cove
(c) Equal parts of the hunting catch
(d) One quarter of the catch

2. Even the smallest stored canoe is too heavy to lift, so what is Karana's solution?
(a) Shorten the length of the canoe
(b) Ask Ramo to help
(c) Clear rocks and make a slippery kelp slide straight to the water
(d) Await a very high tide

3. Why did Ramo want to go back to Ghalas-at?
(a) Because Karana tells him to get valuable seal skins to sell later.
(b) He is afraid.
(c) To get his fishing spear
(d) Because Kimka tells him to get more fresh water for the voyage

4. What does Karana need to hunt wild dogs?
(a) Several snares
(b) Larger bow and sharper arrows
(c) Poison sticks
(d) Decaying bird flesh

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What awaits Karana upon her return to the cave?

2. What is the first deal that Captain Orlov offers Chief Chowig with regard to the hunting catch?

3. Why is Karana putting a canoe in the water at Coral Cove?

4. Which utensil Karana is making?

5. Who greets the large Russian man after he says that he comes in peace?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why the ship won't turn back toward the island so that Ramo can come on board?

2. Describe what happens when Karana goes hunting sea elephants. Does she manage to kill one?

3. How does Karana get sea elephant teeth for her spear points?

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

5. 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?

6. Who is aboard the ship that arrives at Ghalas-at island? What do they want with the villagers?

7. How do the people of the Ghalas-at village know when the Aleutians are planning to leave the island?

8. Summarize the description Karana gives of the Island of the Blue Dolphins?

9. What does Karana do after she discovers Roma's lifeless body?

10. Karana cannot sleep the night before she decides to hunt sea elephants. What does she think about as she lies awake during the night?

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