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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, From the Sun Swept Lagoon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How deeply was the island submerged?
(a) Twelve inches.
(b) Twelve dozen feet.
(c) Twelve hundred feet.
(d) Twelve feet.

2. When a slave woman weeps because her husband is going to be sacrificed, what happens?
(a) She is laughed at.
(b) Her husband is spared.
(c) She is killed.
(d) She is rewarded.

3. In comparison with the other land masses on the planet, what best describes these islands?
(a) Younger.
(b) Bigger.
(c) Older.
(d) Colder.

4. What early life forms can the ocean bring to an island?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) Both of the given answers.
(c) Lichens.
(d) Moss.

5. What god was the island chief's father sacrificed to appease?
(a) Havaiki.
(b) Tane.
(c) Pere.
(d) Oro.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?

2. When the island king attends the temple ceremony, what is displayed there?

3. What is lava?

4. What god do the island king and his people worship, to the high priest's displeasure?

5. When the island submerged again, what formed around it?

(see the answer key)

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