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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In comparison with the other land masses on the planet, what best describes these islands?
2. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?
3. At the end of Chapter 1, what best describes the island?
4. Why does Abner Hale marry Jerusha Bromley?
5. What bad omen does the island king experience before he sails away?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What were likely to be the earliest living creatures to visit the newly formed island in Chapter 1?
3. The six-month ocean voyage to Hawaii is a rough test of endurance. How does Abner Hale respond to this challenge?
4. What happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?
5. What are the earliest life forms that an island can support, once it has formed soil?
6. How does Abner Hale react when he is told that Hawaiians, including their Alii Nui (queen), Malama, practice polygamy, and that the rocks in the garden are family gods?
7. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
8. 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?
9. Once the king and his followers settle at their new village site, they make many important decisions about their future. Pick one and discuss it briefly.
10. How does the voyage go, and what good and/or bad omens do the travelers encounter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast how well or poorly the following characters dealt with change, during their lifetimes: (a) Abner Hale; (b) Nyuk Tsin; and (c) Kamejiro Sakagawa.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast King Tamatoa of Bora Bora and his brother, Teroro. Explore the positive and negative traits of both men. Which of them do you find more admirable, and why? Please illustrate your reasons with specific examples and information from Chapter 2.
Essay Topic 3
What might have happened differently if all of the missionaries who initially came to Hawaii had been like Abner Hale? What might have happened differently if they had all been like John Whipple?
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