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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do the crew members of the ship do after it lands in Coral Cove?
(a) They attack the Ghalas-at village.
(b) They offer strange foods to the village people.
(c) Six men row to shore and one of them jumps out shouting.
(d) They bring gifts and trinkets to the people of the village.
2. What is the reason for a fence at the new house?
(a) Deter the red foxes that steal
(b) A windbreak during high wind storms
(c) Keep out wild dogs.
(d) Karana has always wanted a fence.
3. Why is Karana constructing shelves in the rock face?
(a) Storage of spear points
(b) To keep food away from gray mice
(c) Safekeeping of the valuables from the wooden trunk
(d) Storage of drinking water
4. Why are the male sea elephants sitting separate from each other?
(a) They need plenty of space to sleep in the sunshine
(b) They are bad-tempered, jealous, and quick to fight.
(c) To encourage the female to mate
(d) To protect the herd community from every direction
5. Why have white men come to the Island of the Blue Dolphins?
(a) To construct better skin canoes for the villagers
(b) To take the villagers away from Ghalas-at
(c) To catch the plentiful fish
(d) To repair the ship
Short Answer Questions
1. What is on the beach when Karana returns?
2. How do the men of the village of Ghalas-at prepare for the coming ship?
3. Why are the villagers calmed after the alarm?
4. What does Karana realize is happening while she is paddling the canoe?
5. What is the major topic of discussion about leaving Ghalas-at?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the emotional state of the villagers after losing so many men in the battle with the Aleuts?
2. When Karana goes to the spring to gather more water in her baskets, she seeks refuge from the wild dogs in a cave. She plans to turn the cave into another house. What does she do to the cave to make it habitable?
3. Why isn't the autumn and winter peaceful in Ghalas-at, even though there is plenty of food for everyone?
4. Explain the image Karana uses to describe Roma's eyes.
5. When there were people in Ghalas-at, Karana would be up before sunrise and busy with many things. What does she do now that she is the only person on the island?
6. How does Karana describe the Aleutian ship as it nears the island?
7. What fills Karana with happiness the morning after she returns to the island in the leaking canoe?
8. Explain why the ship won't turn back toward the island so that Ramo can come on board?
9. After the tribe recovers the school of white bass that are stranded on the rocky ledge, two of the Aleuts come to ask for some. What does Chief Chowig tell them?
10. Karana leaves the island in one of the hidden canoes. She is forced to turn back to the island after the canoe starts to leak badly. On the way back, she has two good fortunes. Describe what these good fortunes are.
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