Island of the Blue Dolphins

Answer each question and identify the chapter and page # the answer can be found.

Who is telling the story?
What were Karana and Ramo doing on Coral Cove?
What was the object that looked like a gull with folded wings?
What does the name Karana mean?
Why did the Aleuts come to the island?
Why was the island called the Island of the Blue Dolphin?
What was the “good fortune” that happened to the islanders?
Why did the villagers watch the Aleuts throughout the night?
Why did Chief Chowig become upset with Captain Orlov?
What did the islanders of the village think caused Chief Chowig to die?
Why did the women have to start hunting? How did the men feel about the that?
Why did Chief Kimki leave the island?
Why didn’t Ramo get on the ship?
What was the strange sound that Karana heard that sounds like running feet?
Why did Ramo disappear in the middle of the night?
When Karana found him what had happened to him?
What did Karana vow to do to the dogs one day?
Why did Karana burn the village of Ghalasat down?
What did the law of Ghalas-at forbid women to do?
Describe how Karana felt being on the island alone?
Why did Karana decide to leave the island?
Why did Karana return to the island?
How did Karana feel about being back on the island?
What did Karana use sai-sai for?
How did she choose the sea elephant she wanted?. What happened to the sea elephant she chose?
How many days did Karana stay in the house allowing her leg to heal?
What did she do to keep the dogs from attacking her?
Why did she go back to the place where the sea animals lived?
Who did the leader of the pack belong to before it joined the pack?
Which dog did Karana desire to kill the most?
What did Karana do with the gray dog?
What did she name the dog? What does his name mean?
Why did she start repairing the canoe?
Why wasn't Karana lonely anymore?
Why do you think Karana didn't interfere with the fight between Rontu and the other two dogs?
After the Aleuts had killed the men in Karana’s tribe the women in the tribe singe their hair. Why did they do this?

Which abalones did Karana like to eat the best?
Why was the devilfish in the shallow water?
In the old days how did the Aleuts keep the sea gulls from stealing the abalones?
Why did Karana kill ten cormorants?
Who was the skeleton with the flute in its mouth?
Why was Karana afraid of the Aleutian girl?
Why do you think someone cut the whalebones from the fence?
Why did Karana take her skirt away from the Aleut girl?
Why did Karana kill some of the otters?
Who was Mon-a-nee? What does the name Mon-a-nee mean?
Why did Rontu hide from the birds?
Why was Mon-a-nee named changed to Won-a-nee?

Why did the otters move to Tall Rock during the summer?
One summer the otters did not leave Coral Cove. Why did they stay in Coral Cove?
What happened to Rontu?
When Karana was on her way to the place where the sea elephants lived, what did she see?
Why did Karana turn her canoe over and crawl under it?
What happened while she was under the canoe?
What happened when Karana and Rontu were on their way home from the spring?
What kind of damage did the earthquake cause?
What did Karana see when she went down to the beach to get some seaweed?

What did she do to her face?
What happened to the ship that took her people away years ago?

ancestor	frisk	venture	dolphin	whirring
island	lair	glossier	omen	current
abalone	vanquished	abandoned	stunted	gnawed
baited	dyeing	chaffing	rumbling	reproachfully
brackish	crevice	stalking	yucca	scallops
circlet	notched	shimmering	shrouded	spearhead
cormorant	carcasses	pelican	quivering	gesture
cove	horizon	kelp	singed	haunches
crest	headland	abound	lupine	portioned
forbade	gorged	fledging	pelts	trinkets