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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. Learning that the high priest plans to betray the island king, the king and his followers plan to escape by sailing in what direction?
(a) South.
(b) East.
(c) North.
(d) West.

2. What is a submerged island called when it reaches the ocean's surface?
(a) Land.
(b) Fissure.
(c) Lava.
(d) Rupture.

3. Who is Kelolo?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) One of Malama's husbands.
(c) Keoki Kanakoa's father.
(d) Both of the given answers.

4. What is an accurate description of the earliest body of water?
(a) Partly cold with some ice.
(b) Completely frozen.
(c) Completely warm and tropical.
(d) Calm and stagnant.

5. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Barren.
(c) Clay-like.
(d) Rocky.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many miles does the group have to sail to reach their new home?

3. When the island submerged again, what formed around it?

4. The island king avoids the celebration after the ceremony, and instead goes home with 14-year-old Tehani. Who is Tehani's father?

5. What happens to the site of the island king's first new settlement?

Short Essay Questions

1. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?

2. Is the formation of a new island a quick process? Why or why not?

3. By the time the island emerged again and developed into a lush paradise of unique foliage, ready for discovery, what was the one thing lacking that human explorers would need?

4. Malama wants to study how to read and write in English. Abner Hale wants her to learn about God first. How is this impasse resolved?

5. 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?

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

7. How could new plants and life forms reach an island as isolated as the one described in Chapter 1?

8. Nine years later, Abner is delighted to learn that his oldest son, Micah, is returning to Hawaii as a minister. But when he meets the ship, he learns that Micah has married the daughter of Neolani (and granddaughter of the old Alii-Nui, Malama). How does Abner react to this news?

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

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

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