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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What time span is covered in Chapter 1?
(a) A century.
(b) Millions of years.
(c) A week.
(d) Ten years.

2. Once an island is formed, what can further eruptions cause?
(a) Valleys.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) Cliffs.
(d) Mountains.

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

4. Who is the volcano goddess?
(a) Oro.
(b) Villanova.
(c) Tane.
(d) Pele.

5. What two kinds of animals does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage to use for meat?
(a) Lambs and pigs.
(b) Chickens and dogs.
(c) Goats and sheep.
(d) Pigeons and chickens.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the time of their journey, seven centuries before Columbus, what people had sailed the farthest?

2. What bad omen does the island king experience before he sails away?

3. Who does Noelani, Malama's royal daughter, marry?

4. How do the other missionaries on the voyage to Hawaii feel about Abner?

5. What is the name of the newest god and the island of the gods?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the voyage go, and what good and/or bad omens do the travelers encounter?

2. The Alii Nui, Malama, dies, and her daughter Neolani becomes the new Alii Nui in her place. What is Malama's dying wish, and do Malama's family members and Abner honor it?

3. What happens to the first new village site the king and his followers choose, and is what happens good or bad?

4. What hard emotional choice much Teroro make, when it is time for the group to sail north?

5. What does James Michener think of the civilization that existed on the island of Bora Bora at the time that we first see the villagers in Chapter 2?

6. When the wife of missionary Abraham Hewlett goes into labor, Abner must deliver the baby. He consults his book on midwifery but won't gather the herbs that the Hawaiian women say that Mrs. Hewlett will need after the birth. What happens as a result?

7. What is Abner's reaction when the crew of a docked whaling ship go on a rampage through the settlement, sacking the homes of Hawaiians and raping their women?

8. After the island in Chapter 1 was fully formed, the earth shifted, sinking it under 1,200 feet of water again for millions of years. What new feature formed around the island during that time?

9. In Chapter 3, why does the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) insist that Abner Hale get married before he is allowed to sail to Hawaii as a missionary?

10. What happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?

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