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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 does Karana do in the cave?
(a) Fills the second opening with many stones
(b) Waits for the storms to end
(c) Sharpens the weapons
(d) Makes it into a new home

2. Why is Karana leaving the raging battle of sea elephants?
(a) She has vision in only one eye.
(b) Both sea elephants are mortally wounded.
(c) Her elbow is swollen and throbbing.
(d) Darkness has fallen.

3. What is Karana doing in the Ghalas-at village?
(a) Keeping a regular night watch with the villagers
(b) Burning down all the houses
(c) Preparing a house for when the villagers return home
(d) Building a storage area to protect the food supply

4. Why have white men come to the Island of the Blue Dolphins?
(a) To construct better skin canoes for the villagers
(b) To take the villagers away from Ghalas-at
(c) To catch the plentiful fish
(d) To repair the ship

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What injury does Karana incur as she trips to avoid the old bull on the slope?

2. What is slowing the construction of the house?

3. When the wild dogs are heard barking, who is being attacked?

4. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?

5. What does the young male do that starts a fight?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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?

7. How many men come in the Aleut ship under the command of Captain Orlov. What do they want from the people of Ghalas-at village?

8. When Karana goes to the spring to gather more water in her baskets, she seeks refuge from the wild dogs in a cave. She plans to turn the cave into another house. What does she do to the cave to make it habitable?

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

10. Explain the image Karana uses to describe Roma's eyes.

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