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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The island king avoids the celebration after the ceremony, and instead goes home with 14-year-old Tehani. Who is Tehani's father?
(a) Marama.
(b) Teroro.
(c) The high priest.
(d) King Tatai.

2. What percent of Lahaina's population dies in the measles epidemic?
(a) 0%
(b) 80%
(c) 33%
(d) 10%

3. After much argument, what is sacrificed when the island king and his people build a temple at their new home?
(a) One slave.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Fish.
(d) Four slaves.

4. How does Malama, the royal Anii-Nui, treat the missionaries when they arrive in Hawaii?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) She greets them warmly.
(c) She decides to dress like the missionaries.
(d) She asks them to teach her to read and write English.

5. What is an accurate description of the earliest body of water?
(a) Partly cold with some ice.
(b) Completely warm and tropical.
(c) Calm and stagnant.
(d) Completely frozen.

6. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?
(a) A message.
(b) Fire.
(c) A plant seed.
(d) Medicine.

7. Who helps Jerusha when her first child, a son, is born?
(a) Malama.
(b) John Whipple.
(c) A Hawaiian midwife.
(d) Abner.

8. What is the name of the island king?
(a) Villanova.
(b) Rotarua.
(c) Tamatoa.
(d) Polynesia.

9. What is lava?
(a) Liquid molten rock.
(b) A kind of sea bird.
(c) A kind of sea weed.
(d) Floating wood.

10. When Jesus and Mohammed were alive, what stage were the islands at?
(a) Completely formed.
(b) Not even begun.
(c) Still forming.
(d) Fire-ravaged.

11. What is a submerged island called when it reaches the ocean's surface?
(a) Lava.
(b) Rupture.
(c) Land.
(d) Fissure.

12. When Malama dies, what keepsake does Kelolo claim?
(a) Her bracelet.
(b) Her skull.
(c) Her pet parrot.
(d) Her portrait.

13. What is one reason that the sailors sail back to their original island during Chapter 2?
(a) To attack their former village.
(b) To reunite Teroro with Marama.
(c) To give up and go home.
(d) To hunt for birds.

14. In Chapter 3, what subject does Abner Hale study at Yale University?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Divinity.

15. What announcement does Jerusha make when she reaches Hawaii?
(a) She is going blind.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is allergic to coconuts.
(d) She wants to be an actress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abner meet John Whipple?

2. When Kelolo teaches Hawaiian history to Abner, how many generations does he say have been born since the original founding journey from Bora Bora?

3. What happens after Abner delivers Urania Hewlett's baby?

4. Why does Abner Hale marry Jerusha Bromley?

5. What does John Whipple do for the community after he leaves missionary work?

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