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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 is true about the body of water in Chapter 1?
2. What good omen appears during the voyage?
3. Who does Noelani, Malama's royal daughter, marry?
4. How does Abner meet John Whipple?
5. How far below the surface did fissures form?
Short Essay Questions
1. Is the formation of a new island a quick process? Why or why not?
2. In Chapter 1, what natural feature does author James Michener describe as dwarfing all others on Earth, and why?
3. What dangerous message does Teroro receive from Tehani, the fourteen-year-old girl who takes him to her sleeping quarters after the convocation?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. Teroro is King Tamatoa's brother. Is he loyal to the king or loyal to the high priest? How can you tell?
7. What happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?
8. What happens to the first new village site the king and his followers choose, and is what happens good or bad?
9. What were likely to be the earliest living creatures to visit the newly formed island in Chapter 1?
10. Three years after Mrs. Hewlett's death, Mr. Hewlett marries a Hawaiian girl. How do the ABCFM and the local missionary community react to this news?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the reasons why Reiko Sakagawa was not given the same opportunities as her four brothers to attend college, whether you believe that her father's choices and actions toward her were affected by her gender, and why you feel that those choices and actions were or were not fair.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Define a "theocracy," a "monarchy," and a "democracy." Discuss the strengths and shortcomings of each, and examine how each was depicted in the novel HAWAII.
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