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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the big gray dog do when Karana finds him at the rocks after 2 days?
(a) Tries to run off to the brush
(b) Lays motionless
(c) Charges at Karana
(d) Howls in pain

2. Who jumps overboard from the ship?
(a) Karana
(b) Nanko
(c) Ramo
(d) Matasaip

3. Where does a white puff of smoke come from?
(a) Burning the hollow log
(b) Cannon fire by the Aleut ship
(c) A fire the villagers make on the cliffs
(d) An Aleut bonfire on the beach

4. What does Karana do with the wounded sea otters that the Aleut hunters leave behind?
(a) She kills them and uses them for food.
(b) She tries to push them back into the water.
(c) She leaves them to die on the shore.
(d) She kills them with her spear, so they won't suffer.

5. What is the reason Karana believes her father is defeated by Captain Orlov.
(a) He is weakened because he tells his secret name to Captain Orlov.
(b) He accepts one chest as payment.
(c) He asks Captain Orlov for help carrying the black chest up the cliff.
(d) He trusts Captain Orlov and allows the lead hunter to pass by him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Karana making for Rontu?

2. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?

3. What does Karana do in the cave?

4. Why have white men come to the Island of the Blue Dolphins?

5. What is the only thing that makes Karana sad?

(see the answer key)

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