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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. Why doesn't Karana go to the cliff to watch and count the catch each day?
3. How do the men of the village of Ghalas-at prepare for the coming ship?
4. Why does Chief Kimki reverse his decision?
5. What is a reason Karana delays her shot at the sea elephant?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why the ship won't turn back toward the island so that Ramo can come on board?
2. Who is aboard the ship that arrives at Ghalas-at island? What do they want with the villagers?
3. How does Karana describe the Aleutian ship as it nears the island?
4. How do the people of the Ghalas-at village know when the Aleutians are planning to leave the island?
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. Ramo decides to go to where the canoes are hidden and bring one back to Coral Cove, so he and Karana can fish and look around the island. What happens when he goes on this mission?
7. Does Chief Chowig accept the black chest of beads as full payment from Captain Orlov and the Aleuts? Explain.
8. Karana cannot sleep the night before she decides to hunt sea elephants. What does she think about as she lies awake during the night?
9. Why is Karana angry with the Aleuts for hunting the sea otters?
10. Overcome with fear that her brother will be abandoned on the island, what does Karana do? What is the outcome?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Analyze Karana's decision to leave the island with the white missionary at the end of the novel.
2) What other alternatives does she have?
3) Write an epilogue summarizing the result of her decision.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
1) Analyze Karana's coming of age while living on the island.
2) What fears and emotions does she experience as she grows on the island?
3) How do her attitudes change as she develops from a young girl into a young woman while on the island?
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