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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Rontu do when Karana asks him to bark at the sea gulls?
(a) He jumps up like he used to do, and barks.
(b) He gets up and barks feebly.
(c) He looks up and barks for her a final time.
(d) He walks over to her, lies down at her feet, and dies.
2. What does the name Rontu mean in English?
(a) Leader
(b) Big Dog
(c) Killer
(d) Fox Eyes
3. What injury does Karana incur as she trips to avoid the old bull on the slope?
(a) She gets a nosebleed.
(b) Her leg is injured.
(c) Her left eye is injured.
(d) Her elbow is injured.
4. Why is Karana constructing shelves in the rock face?
(a) Safekeeping of the valuables from the wooden trunk
(b) Storage of spear points
(c) To keep food away from gray mice
(d) Storage of drinking water
5. What happens after the incident in the meadow?
(a) Wild dogs never return to the headlands.
(b) The Aleuts board their ship and sail away.
(c) Gulls are never again seen on the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
(d) Rontu disappears for one week.
Short Answer Questions
1. As a storm rages for six days, what is Karana doing?
2. Who jumps overboard from the ship?
3. Where does Rontu go on the day he dies?
4. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?
5. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?
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