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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which utensil Karana is making?
(a) Tongs for cooking on the open fire
(b) A wooden spoon
(c) A stone cooking pan
(d) A kelp screen for a strainer

2. Even the smallest stored canoe is too heavy to lift, so what is Karana's solution?
(a) Shorten the length of the canoe
(b) Await a very high tide
(c) Ask Ramo to help
(d) Clear rocks and make a slippery kelp slide straight to the water

3. As a storm rages for six days, what is Karana doing?
(a) Nothing
(b) Killing three wild dogs
(c) Making almost 100 spearheads
(d) Visiting others in Ghalas-at

4. How do the men of the village of Ghalas-at prepare for the coming ship?
(a) They arm themselves, running to the shore to drive away the intruders.
(b) They run down to greet the ship, carrying goods to trade with the crew members.
(c) They all hide among the stones, afraid of the unwanted intruders.
(d) They carry their weapons down to the shore. Half the men stand at the edge of the water and half hide in the rocks ready to attack if necessary.

5. Why does each person of Ghalas-at have two names?
(a) The real name is secret so it doesn't lose its magic, and the other is the common name.
(b) One name is for visitors and the other for tribe use.
(c) The real name is only for family and the other for everyone else.
(d) One name is a birth name and never used. The other is a magic name.

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

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

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

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

10. What does Karana fear if she violates the laws of Ghalas-at?
(a) She alone will have to leave the village
(b) She and her family will have to leave the village
(c) She will be flogged in the center of the village
(d) A wind storm, an earthquake, or tidal wave will destroy the village

11. What are the beds of kelp close to the shore used for?
(a) The kelp often attracts the dolphins to swim closer to shore
(b) Sea otters use the kelp to lie in the sun and sleep.
(c) They provide food for Ghalas-at village when fishing is poor
(d) The kelp causes the sea otters to swim far from shore.

12. What is it Karana makes after many tries?
(a) A net to catch a sea elephant
(b) A bow and some arrows
(c) A winter cloak from sea elephant hides
(d) A fishing spear

13. 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.

14. How do the constant winds affect the land?
(a) They bring dolphins closer in to the beach.
(b) They cause the hills to be polished smooth and the trees to be small and twisted
(c) They prevent the construction of any permanent shelters.
(d) They make movement about the island quite difficult.

15. What is Karana following across the small hills and a valley, club in hand?
(a) A pack of wild dogs
(b) Nanko and Ramo and three wild dogs
(c) Three men carrying the canoe away from Ghalas-at
(d) A group of men that came up from Coral Cove

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Nanko think runs ahead of the group and boards the ship?

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

3. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?

4. Why do the villagers need an escape plan?

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

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