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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. How does Aunt Florence react when she sees Rachel in Chapter 21?
(a) She denies that Rachel is who she says she is.
(b) She is shocked.
(c) She thinks Rachel is Sara, her sister.
(d) She is overjoyed.

2. What does Rachel have a dream about in Chapter 14?
(a) Making love with Jake.
(b) Seeing her father.
(c) Becoming a nurse.
(d) Living in Honolulu.

3. What is Lawrence McCully Judd's position in 1931?
(a) Mayor of Kalaupapa.
(b) County sheriff.
(c) Commissioner for the Island of Moloka'i.
(d) Governor of the Territory of Hawaii.

4. What did Rachel do a lot of in her last twenty years?
(a) Charity work.
(b) Travelling.
(c) Writing.
(d) Painting.

5. What has been declared illegal on Kalaupapa?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Forcibly confining people.
(c) Smoking.
(d) Logging.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rachel do on Thursdays in Chapter 17?

2. What is found floating in the sea at the end of Chapter 20?

3. How does Rachel get a cut on her head in Chapter 21?

4. What is Kenji's job?

5. What lie does Kenji tell Rachel in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Kenji send money to his family for many years? What made him stop?

2. Where does Rachel find a job in Chapter 22? Why is she fired?

3. What difficulty does Rachel have once she arrives in Honolulu?

4. What does Ruth want to know when Rachel first contacts her? How does Ruth react to Rachel's explanation?

5. What documents does Rachel set about obtaining in Chapter 21?

6. What does Rachel think when she sees Honolulu for the first time in more than fifty years?

7. What event seems to aggravate Crossen's anger in Chapter 19? On the night that Kenji dies, why did he go over to Crossen's home?

8. What brings some new residents to Kalaupapa in Chapter 13? What do Rachel and Jake find they have a shared interest in?

9. What did Rachel do in the last twenty years of her life?

10. Why did Crossen choose to be sent to the leprosarium at Kalaupapa instead of Carville?

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