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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, From the Inland Sea.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the island civilization described in Chapter 2?
(a) Sickly.
(b) Weak and disorganized.
(c) Powerful and sophisticated.
(d) Starving.

2. The island king plans to take supplies and sixty people with him when he escapes, and sail with them for how many days?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Six.
(c) Six hundred.
(d) Sixteen.

3. What is the death rate at the Molokai leper colony when Mun Ki arrives?
(a) 4 or 5 people per week.
(b) 4 or 5 people per month.
(c) 4 or 5 people per hour.
(d) 4 or 5 people per day.

4. What is the relationship between Kee Chun Fat (who made his fortune in the California gold fields) and Mun Ki (who works as a cook in a brothel in Macao)?
(a) They are uncle and nephew.
(b) They are brothers.
(c) They are father and son.
(d) They are strangers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Whip Hoxworth believe is the future of Hawaii?

2. How deeply was the island submerged?

3. What is one reason that the sailors sail back to their original island during Chapter 2?

4. Abner condemns the Hawaiian practice of polygamy. What is polygamy?

5. How long does the journey of Char Ti Chong and his people take?

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