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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the male sea elephants sitting separate from each other?
(a) To protect the herd community from every direction
(b) To encourage the female to mate
(c) They are bad-tempered, jealous, and quick to fight.
(d) They need plenty of space to sleep in the sunshine

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

3. Why did the Russians come to Coral Cove?
(a) They came to take slaves back to their homeland.
(b) They came to settle in the village.
(c) They came to take over the village and its resources.
(d) They came to hunt sea otter and camp on the island.

4. Who does Karana vow to kill as she sits awake all night?
(a) Nanko
(b) The men camped in Coral Cove
(c) Chief Matasaip
(d) A pack of wild dogs

5. What is Karana using to make a fence?
(a) Kelp
(b) Whale bones
(c) Driftwood
(d) Stones

6. What do the villagers think about as they keep watch of the Aleut hunt from the cliffs?
(a) How much their lives have improved since the Aleuts came
(b) How much the catch means in beads and other things
(c) How exciting it will be when the Aleuts bring the women and children to settle here
(d) The dolphins off shore near the ship

7. Why don't Ulape and Karana throw rocks at the Aleuts from the cliff?
(a) They plan to tell the Aleuts to leave by sunrise.
(b) They are afraid of hitting a man of the village.
(c) They like Captain Orlov and don't want to hurt him.
(d) They want the Aleuts to stay on the island.

8. What is the only thing that makes Karana sad?
(a) Ulape loves Nanko.
(b) Ramo disobeys her.
(c) The Island of the Blue Dolphins is the only place she has ever known.
(d) She loses her skirt of yucca fibers.

9. Why does the night watchman sound the alarm in the village?
(a) Chief Kimka is paddling toward the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
(b) Wild dogs are ravaging the scarce food supply.
(c) There are men and a cook fire on the beach.
(d) He sees by the dawning light what he thinks is an Aleut ship.

10. What is it that is now making Karana feel happy?
(a) The blue dolphins are swimming in Coral Cove.
(b) A new source of fresh water is found.
(c) The canoe is repaired.
(d) The rocks, the kelp, the tides, the Island of the Blue Dolphins

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

12. When the wild dogs are heard barking, who is being attacked?
(a) Children of the Ghalas-at village
(b) Chief of The Island of the Blue Dolphins
(c) Nanko
(d) Ramo

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

14. Why is Karana constructing shelves in the rock face?
(a) To keep food away from gray mice
(b) Storage of drinking water
(c) Storage of spear points
(d) Safekeeping of the valuables from the wooden trunk

15. What does Karana realize is happening while she is paddling the canoe?
(a) The extra paddle is missing
(b) The canoe is leaking
(c) The kelp is too thick for a canoe
(d) The sea otter may capsize the canoe

Short Answer Questions

1. How do villagers feel about leaving the Island of the Blue Dolphin?

2. What is the first thing Karana does after returning from her failed mission?

3. How do the Ghalas-at tribesmen prepare for the confrontation with Captain Orlov?

4. Why does Chief Kimki reverse his decision?

5. What name does Ramo choose as he tells Karana he is a man and the tribal chief?

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