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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 a reason Karana delays her shot at the sea elephant?

2. What are the things that make the first day of house building a good omen?

3. What is it Karana makes after many tries?

4. What is a law in Ghalas-at?

5. What are the beds of kelp close to the shore used for?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Explain why the ship won't turn back toward the island so that Ramo can come on board?

3. 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?

4. How does Karana describe the Aleutian ship as it nears the island?

5. What is the emotional state of the villagers after losing so many men in the battle with the Aleuts?

6. 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?

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

8. 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.

9. 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?

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) Summarize the survival skills Karana develops.

2) Include her methods of constructing and building her shelters.

3) How does she find and prepare food?

4) How does she tame animals?

5) What are her fishing methods?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

1) Outline the important events of Karana's life on the island.

2) Describe how she comes to be stranded on the island.

3) Describe what her courses of action are to survive on the island.

4) Describe how she copes with loneliness.

5) Explain why and how she leaves the island.

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