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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 advice does 94-year-old Char Nyuk Tsin give to her grandson, Hong Kong Kee, after the events of December 7, 1941?
(a) To buy all the land they can.
(b) To sell all the land they can.
(c) None of the given answers.
(d) To do no more buying and selling until events calm down.

2. What kind of education do Kamejiro's children receive when they are young?
(a) Daily regular school followed by daily Japanese school.
(b) Regular English-speaking school only.
(c) Japanese-speaking school only.
(d) None of the given answers.

3. When Mun Ki is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to the leper colony on Molokai, accompanied by his pregnant wife, Char Nyuk Tsin, what do the two of them find there?
(a) An elaborate church but no clinic.
(b) A simple village with a clinic.
(c) Nothing but grass huts.
(d) A state-of-the-art hospital.

4. What are the Seven Little Eyes?
(a) Stars.
(b) Ships.
(c) A chain of islands.
(d) Followers of the high priest.

5. What does Char Nyuk Tsin do with the first acre of land that is given to her in Hawaii?
(a) Gives ownership of the land to her husband.
(b) Sells the land for a handsome profit.
(c) Builds a small house.
(d) Raises vegetables to sell for extra money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?

2. Ishii becomes a representative for the Japanese Federation of Labor, trying to obtain better hours and better pay for the workers. When the workers go on strike, how do the planters and the Japanese Consulate react?

3. What body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?

4. In Chapter 3, what subject does Abner Hale study at Yale University?

5. What task is assigned to the missionaries?

(see the answer key)

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