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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are the male sea elephants sitting separate from each other?
2. Why don't Ulape and Karana throw rocks at the Aleuts from the cliff?
3. What does Karana see in the cave?
4. What do the villagers think about as they keep watch of the Aleut hunt from the cliffs?
5. What is the final deal that Chief Chowig accepts from Captain Orlov?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do the people of the Ghalas-at village know when the Aleutians are planning to leave the island?
2. 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?
3. What fills Karana with happiness the morning after she returns to the island in the leaking canoe?
4. 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?
5. What does Karana do after she discovers Roma's lifeless body?
6. 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?
7. Describe the preparations the people of the village make in case the Aleuts return and they have to escape?
8. After Karana finishes building her home, she decides it is time to kill the wild dogs on the island. What does she need to do the job?
9. Karana cannot sleep the night before she decides to hunt sea elephants. What does she think about as she lies awake during the night?
10. Does Chief Chowig accept the black chest of beads as full payment from Captain Orlov and the Aleuts? Explain.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
1) Imagine you are an historian reading the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
2) Would you see the story as historically accurate?
3) Use details from the story to support your answer.
4) What plot or setting descriptions would you change to make it more historically accurate?
Essay Topic 2
1) Examine the concept that survival on the island is a form of initiation for Karana.
2) How does her life on the island move her from innocence to maturity?
3) In what way does she develop a new sense of herself?
4) How does she develop a deeper understanding of the world around her?
5) At what moment does this new knowledge of her world become evident to her?
Essay Topic 3
1) Explain the belief by the tribe of Ghalas-at with regard to women hunting.
2) How does this belief affect Karana when she is stranded on the island?
3) What are her feelings toward the belief?
4) In what way is Karana justified in her reaction to the Ghalas-at belief?
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