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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. What body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?
2. What causes lava rock to decompose?
3. At the time of their journey, seven centuries before Columbus, what people had sailed the farthest?
4. What does Keoki tell Abner about the rocks in Malama's garden?
5. How long will the sailing voyage from New England to Hawaii take?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the king and his brother, Teroro, argue bitterly about, when the time comes to build the first temple on their new island, and what compromise do they reach?
2. What are the earliest life forms that an island can support, once it has formed soil?
3. In Chapter 3, why does the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) insist that Abner Hale get married before he is allowed to sail to Hawaii as a missionary?
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. Is the formation of a new island a quick process? Why or why not?
6. After the island in Chapter 1 was fully formed, the earth shifted, sinking it under 1,200 feet of water again for millions of years. What new feature formed around the island during that time?
7. 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.
8. 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?
9. What happens to the first new village site the king and his followers choose, and is what happens good or bad?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
In his secret journal, missionary Immanuel Quigley wrote: "The Hawaiian is destined to diminish year by year, dispossessed, distraught and confused." In regard to that passage, his descendant Elinor Henderson states that Quigley "...said that we Christians had invaded the islands with the proper God but with an improper set of supporting values. It was his conviction that our God saved the islands, but our ideas killed them. Particularly the Hawaiians." Do you agree or disagree with this view? Explain why, and support your opinion with examples from the book.
Essay Topic 3
In Chapter 3, Abner Hale and John Whipple begin as roommates at Yale, and both answer the call to do missionary work in Hawaii, but their paths soon diverge as their decisions bring them into greater and greater conflict with one another. Which of these men eventually feels more fulfilled by the life choices he has made, and why?
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