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

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

3. What does Karana see in the cave?
(a) Stone cuts of animals carved on the walls
(b) Bones of previous inhabitants
(c) Markings of a huge fire long ago
(d) Weapons from long ago

4. Why does Karana need to leave the shelter after five days?
(a) To gather some food
(b) To go to the spring
(c) To watch for the ship
(d) The fence is broken

5. Why did Ramo want to go back to Ghalas-at?
(a) Because Karana tells him to get valuable seal skins to sell later.
(b) He is afraid.
(c) Because Kimka tells him to get more fresh water for the voyage
(d) To get his fishing spear

Short Answer Questions

1. What awaits Karana upon her return to the cave?

2. How do the villagers know the Aleut ship is preparing to leave?

3. What is Karana able to get from the sea elephant carcass?

4. What does Chief Chowig tell the two Aleuts who ask for bass?

5. Who is leaving alone in a skin canoe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Ramo decides to go to where the canoes are hidden and bring one back to Coral Cove, so he and Karana can fish and look around the island. What happens when he goes on this mission?

2. How does Karana describe the Aleutian ship as it nears the island?

3. What events take place after Chief Chowig demands the rest of the chests be brought to shore before the otter pelts are loaded onto the ship?

4. How does Karana build a fence to protect her from the wild dogs?

5. How does Karana get sea elephant teeth for her spear points?

6. 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?

7. How do the men of Ghalas-at village react when the Aleut ship sails into Coral Cove?

8. Karana cannot sleep the night before she decides to hunt sea elephants. What does she think about as she lies awake during the night?

9. What fills Karana with happiness the morning after she returns to the island in the leaking canoe?

10. Why didn't Karana want to return to the Island of the Blue Dolphins after her canoe starts to leak?

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