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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Karana putting a canoe in the water at Coral Cove?
(a) To escape from attack of the wild dogs
(b) To spear a sea otter
(c) To flee the loneliness of The Island of the Blue Dolphins
(d) To spear a sea elephant

2. What does Karana find in Ghalas-at when she returns?
(a) Ramo has killed a wild dog
(b) Ravaging wild dogs
(c) Ramo is sleeping
(d) Nanko and Ulape kissing

3. What is Karana doing in the Ghalas-at village?
(a) Keeping a regular night watch with the villagers
(b) Preparing a house for when the villagers return home
(c) Burning down all the houses
(d) Building a storage area to protect the food supply

4. Why do Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters camp on the high ground of the island?
(a) Because the beach is small and almost floods when the tide comes in
(b) To keep a lookout on the sea for any enemy ships
(c) To be able to look at all parts of the island's coast for sea otters
(d) To get a better view of the village and any uprisings from the tribe

5. Why does Chief Chowig advise the people not to visit the Aleut's camp?
(a) He says that the Aleuts might kidnap women and children.
(b) He warns them that the Aleuts carry disease.
(c) He tells them that the Aleuts have powerful, evil magic.
(d) He says that the Aleut's ways and language are not their ways

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

7. What is swimming ahead of the canoe?
(a) Nothing
(b) Three sea elephants with huge tusks
(c) Blue dolphins
(d) Sea otters

8. What does Karana do in the cave?
(a) Makes it into a new home
(b) Sharpens the weapons
(c) Fills the second opening with many stones
(d) Waits for the storms to end

9. How do the Aleuts act as they prepare to leave the island?
(a) They do not carry weapons of any kind while on the beach.
(b) They are laughing as if they are happy to leave the island.
(c) They empty one of the six chests.
(d) They hate Captain Orlov and refuse to follow his directions.

10. What is Captain Orlov's reaction to Chief Chowig's refusal of one chest as payment?
(a) He has the six chests brought to the beach after the ship is fully loaded.
(b) He sets sail while the sun is still high.
(c) He instructs his men not to use knives and spears.
(d) He tells Chief Chowig there are more chests on the ship just like the one on the sand.

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

12. How does Karana describe her brother's eyes?
(a) His eyes miss little. They are large and black like a lizard and often look sleepy
(b) His eyes are as green as the sea with an intelligent look
(c) His eyes are as brown as the roots that grow on the island
(d) His eyes are bright blue like the dolphins and always wide open

13. What does the young male do that starts a fight?
(a) Mates with an older cow
(b) Eats the fish that belongs to the others
(c) Moves toward the cows that belong to an old bull
(d) Takes another's spot in the sunshine

14. What is the captain's name from the Aleutian ship?
(a) Captain Orlov
(b) Captain Aleut
(c) Captain Mitriff
(d) Captain Ghalas

15. What does the shape of the island resemble when a person stands on a rise in the middle?
(a) A roughly-drawn rectangle
(b) Two separate pieces, linked by a reef
(c) A dolphin lying on its side
(d) An imperfectly-drawn circle

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a law in Ghalas-at?

2. Why does the number of men in the Ghalas-at tribe change suddenly?

3. Why is life in the village slowed and very quiet?

4. What is it that is now making Karana feel happy?

5. What injury does Karana incur as she trips to avoid the old bull on the slope?

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