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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?
2. What is the name of Karana's six year old brother?
3. Why does Karana need to leave the shelter after five days?
4. What are the things that make the first day of house building a good omen?
5. Why is Karana putting a canoe in the water at Coral Cove?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. Who is aboard the ship that arrives at Ghalas-at island? What do they want with the villagers?
4. How do the men of Ghalas-at village react when the Aleut ship sails into Coral Cove?
5. Why isn't the autumn and winter peaceful in Ghalas-at, even though there is plenty of food for everyone?
6. 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?
7. 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.
8. How do the people of the Ghalas-at village know when the Aleutians are planning to leave the island?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Imagine you are an historian reading the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
2) Would you see the story as historically accurate?
3) Use details from the story to support your answer.
4) What plot or setting descriptions would you change to make it more historically accurate?
Essay Topic 2
1) Examine the concept that survival on the island is a form of initiation for Karana.
2) How does her life on the island move her from innocence to maturity?
3) In what way does she develop a new sense of herself?
4) How does she develop a deeper understanding of the world around her?
5) At what moment does this new knowledge of her world become evident to her?
Essay Topic 3
1) The Island of the Blue Dolphins is a fitting setting for the theme of courage and survival.
2) Describe the function of the island as a means of revealing this theme.
3) Cite at least three examples of how the setting intensifies Karana's journey of survival and courage.
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