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

2. What starts happening to Japanese people in Hawaii on December 10, 1941?
(a) They are arrested on sight.
(b) They are shipped back to Japan.
(c) They are rounded up and placed in barbed-wire enclosures.
(d) They are honored with a parade in Honolulu.

3. What can underwater eruptions cause?
(a) Tidal waves.
(b) Snow.
(c) Crop growth.
(d) Rainbows.

4. Why are so many members of the Kee family able to get jobs as bookkeepers?
(a) They blackmail the people who are doing the hiring.
(b) They are smart and well-educated.
(c) They are lucky.
(d) They bribe the people who are doing the hiring.

5. What task is assigned to the missionaries?
(a) To teach Latin to the natives.
(b) To translate the Bible into Hawaiian.
(c) To learn how to surf.
(d) To teach the natives how to grow tobacco.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Kee Chun Fat (who made his fortune in the California gold fields) and Mun Ki (who works as a cook in a brothel in Macao)?

2. What happens to Hashimoto (a friend of Kamejiro's) after he marries a Hawaiian girl?

3. Why is Char Nyuk Tsin, daughter of a Hakka chief, unmarried at the age of seventeen?

4. What causes lava rock to decompose?

5. What is true about the body of water in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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