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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Karana fear if she violates the laws of Ghalas-at?
(a) She will be flogged in the center of the village
(b) She and her family will have to leave the village
(c) A wind storm, an earthquake, or tidal wave will destroy the village
(d) She alone will have to leave the village
2. Why do the villagers need an escape plan?
(a) The supplies of food and water are now inadequate.
(b) The increase of serious storms is making the island unlivable.
(c) The villagers cannot climb down the cliffs.
(d) They must leave the Island of the Blue Dolphins if the Aleuts return.
3. How do the villagers know the Aleut ship is preparing to leave?
(a) The Aleuts who normally spend the day sharpening spears, stop doing that.
(b) The Aleuts party late into the nights and start work much later in the mornings.
(c) The dolphins have depleted the fish supply.
(d) The hunters argue more with each other.
4. Why is Karana putting a canoe in the water at Coral Cove?
(a) To escape from attack of the wild dogs
(b) To flee the loneliness of The Island of the Blue Dolphins
(c) To spear a sea otter
(d) To spear a sea elephant
5. Why does the night watchman sound the alarm in the village?
(a) Chief Kimka is paddling toward the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
(b) There are men and a cook fire on the beach.
(c) Wild dogs are ravaging the scarce food supply.
(d) He sees by the dawning light what he thinks is an Aleut ship.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is swimming ahead of the canoe?
2. What is the captain's name from the Aleutian ship?
3. As a storm rages for six days, what is Karana doing?
4. What is Karana doing in the Ghalas-at village?
5. What was the problem the tribe encountered when Captain Mitriff came to the village to hunt years before?
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