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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) The high priest.
(c) King Tatai.
(d) Teroro.

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

3. In 1825, how much do the missionaries earn per year?
(a) Two thousand dollars per year.
(b) Twenty dollars per year.
(c) They receive no salary at all.
(d) Two hundred dollars per year.

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

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

6. What else does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage?
(a) Toys to amuse the children.
(b) Saplings and roots to plant.
(c) Bags of gold coins to trade for food.
(d) Wood for carving a totem pole.

7. What body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Arctic Ocean.
(c) The Indian Ocean.
(d) The Pacific Ocean.

8. How far below the surface did fissures form?
(a) Four miles down.
(b) Forty miles down.
(c) Four feet down.
(d) Four yards down.

9. How do the other missionaries on the voyage to Hawaii feel about Abner?
(a) They worhsip him.
(b) They laugh at him.
(c) They ignore him.
(d) They look to him for guidance.

10. How many miles does the group have to sail to reach their new home?
(a) Five miles.
(b) Five thousand miles.
(c) Five hundred miles.
(d) Fifty miles.

11. What convinces Abner to become a missionary and go to Hawaii?
(a) A message in a fortune cookie.
(b) It has been Abner's life-long ambition.
(c) The terms of Abner's father's will.
(d) Keoki Kanakoa's lecture at Yale University.

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

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

14. On what island is a new temple being built for which the high priest requires the presence of the island king and his entourage?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Malta.
(d) Bora Bora.

15. When Abner's oldest son married Noelani's daughter, how does Abner react?
(a) He welcomes her into the family.
(b) He burns down their new house.
(c) He is rude to her and calls her a heathen.
(d) He confesses that he wanted to marry her, himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes lava rock to decompose?

2. What are the Seven Little Eyes?

3. What is the name of the island king?

4. What important position does the king's uncle, Tupuna, pass down to Teroro?

5. What is the primary setting of Chapter 2?

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