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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 do on sunny days after the Aleuts leave?
2. What does Karana do to pass the time during the winter that the Aleuts are on the island?
3. Why does Karana attempt to catch a devilfish?
4. How does Karana catch Rontu's son?
5. What does Rontu do when Karana asks him to bark at the sea gulls?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain why Karana considers her yard a happy place?
2. What does Karana do after she tracks the injured pack leader, finding him immobile on the ground?
3. 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?
4. How do Karana and Tutok spend their time together?
5. What does Karana do after the Aleut girl finds her and Rontu at the cave?
6. How does Karana feel now that Tutok has gone away?
7. What does Karana do with the young, wounded otter she finds after the Aleutian ship departs?
8. Karana survives the tidal waves and returns to the headland. What happens when Rontu-Aru greets her?
9. Karana makes several trips to her cave during the day to move all her belongings. On the final trip, she has a feeling someone has been there. What happens?
10. What does Karana lose in the damage of the tidal waves?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Judging from Karana's action in the story, speculate what kind of person she is.
2) In a biographical sketch, discuss how Karana feels on the topics of friendship, nature, family, animals, and acceptance.
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) What is the message O'Dell is trying to convey in the novel?
2) Does he depict a realistic and relevant view of human nature through Karana's character?
3) Are the human qualities of the character too sentimental, cynical, or unwilling to change? Explain.
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