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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 Karana see in the early morning light at the Aleut camp?
2. What do Karana and Tutok do when they finally meet?
3. What does Karana do on sunny days after the Aleuts leave?
4. Why does Karana change Mon-a-nee's name?
5. Why does Karana deny living in the cave when the Aleut girl asks her?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why Karana considers her yard a happy place?
2. Summarize Karana's feelings toward the animals on the island
3. Karana survives the tidal waves and returns to the headland. What happens when Rontu-Aru greets her?
4. What does Karana discover in Black Cave on the southern coast of the island that frightens her?
5. 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?
6. Where does Karana make a grave for Rontu and what does she place on it?
7. What does Karana see while she is out looking for supplies to fix her canoe, and what is her reaction?
8. What is the great discovery that Karana and Rontu make as they travel around the island in the canoe?
9. What does Karana do after the Aleut girl finds her and Rontu at the cave?
10. How does Karana feel now that Tutok has gone away?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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