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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 is Karana able to get from the sea elephant carcass?
2. What is the name of Karana's six year old brother?
3. What is the only thing that makes Karana sad?
4. Why is Karana constructing shelves in the rock face?
5. What is Karana using to make a fence?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the men of Ghalas-at village react when the Aleut ship sails into Coral Cove?
2. 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?
3. Karana cannot sleep the night before she decides to hunt sea elephants. What does she think about as she lies awake during the night?
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. Does Chief Chowig accept the black chest of beads as full payment from Captain Orlov and the Aleuts? Explain.
7. What fills Karana with happiness the morning after she returns to the island in the leaking canoe?
8. How do the sea elephants help Karana decide where to build her new home?
9. Explain the image Karana uses to describe Roma's eyes.
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) 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) Analyze the character of Karana.
2) How is she depicted by O'Dell?
3) How do her own words and actions reveal what type of character she is?
4) What do her relationships with her brother Ramo, and her animal friends reveal about her character?
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