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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the crew members of the ship do after it lands in Coral Cove?
(a) They bring gifts and trinkets to the people of the village.
(b) They offer strange foods to the village people.
(c) They attack the Ghalas-at village.
(d) Six men row to shore and one of them jumps out shouting.

2. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?
(a) Chief Chowig
(b) Chief Kimki
(c) Ramo
(d) The Girl with the Long Black Hair

3. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?
(a) That the villagers ate all the bass the night before
(b) He has to think of his own people and refuses to share the bass
(c) That there is plentiful bass near the beach in the early spring
(d) That the bass are spoiled and not edible

4. Why is life in the village slowed and very quiet?
(a) The food supply is quickly running down.
(b) The return of the hunters is days overdue.
(c) The memory of those who are gone is a burden in the hearts of all.
(d) The water for the village is now polluted.

5. Why have white men come to the Island of the Blue Dolphins?
(a) To construct better skin canoes for the villagers
(b) To repair the ship
(c) To catch the plentiful fish
(d) To take the villagers away from Ghalas-at

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Russians come to Coral Cove?

2. Who vainly packs earrings and blue clay into the luggage?

3. What does the shape of the island resemble when a person stands on a rise in the middle?

4. Who jumps overboard from the ship?

5. What is Captain Orlov's reaction to Chief Chowig's refusal of one chest as payment?

(see the answer key)

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