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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 Karana not use her arrows to help Rontu in the meadow?
(a) She has lost all but two.
(b) The Aleuts are out of range.
(c) The gulls will swarm and kill her.
(d) Rontu has the advantage, to disrupt would only mean another fight later.

2. Why does Karana change Mon-a-nee's name?
(a) She thinks of a name that she likes better.
(b) She discovers that the sea otter is really a girl and names her Won-a-nee.
(c) She gets tired of the old name.
(d) She decides to give the otter a more masculine name.

3. As Karana looks down at the empty harbor, what is she thinking?
(a) She feels good now that the sea otters will be safe.
(b) She thinks of Tutok and all the times they sat in the sun together.
(c) She is happy that she can move back to the headland.
(d) She thinks that she finally has the island to herself again.

4. How does Karana catch Rontu's son?
(a) She catches him with one of the snares she made.
(b) She catches him with the toluache weed. which put him to sleep.
(c) She catches him with xuchal, made from ground shells and wild tobacco.
(d) She catches him with a lure of abalone.

5. 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) Makes more sharp spearheads
(d) Tosses stones at the vicious pack leader

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Karana going to spend the night after the reef incident?

2. Where did the large dog leader of the pack come from?

3. What does Karana do with the yellow, wild dog after she catches him?

4. What is the biggest loss Karana suffers in the earthquake?

5. How does the island seem to Karana after Tutok leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Karana watches for Tutok from a brushy ledge the morning after finding the necklace. What does Karana do when Tutok arrives, then turns to leave when she sees that Karana has not taken the necklace?

2. What does Karana do with the young, wounded otter she finds after the Aleutian ship departs?

3. Summarize the method Karana uses to tame the two young birds, nesting in a tree above her house.

4. What is Karana worried about when she takes her new spear to go and hunt devilfish?

5. Other than training the birds, how does Karana pass the time throughout the spring?

6. How does Karana catch the wild dog she believes to be Rontu's son?

7. How does Karana feel now that Tutok has gone away?

8. What does Karana discover in Black Cave on the southern coast of the island that frightens her?

9. Explain why Karana considers her yard a happy place?

10. What does Karana do after the Aleut girl finds her and Rontu at the cave?

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