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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. Abner condemns the Hawaiian practice of polygamy. What is polygamy?
(a) Being married to more than one person at a time.
(b) Stealing.
(c) Public drunkness.
(d) Worshipping false gods.

2. When Whip Hoxworth wants Kamejiro to move to Oahu to work, he offers to pay him with land, but Kamejiro insists on a payment of $200 instead. Is this a good decision by Kamejiro?
(a) No. The land is eventually worth far more.
(b) None of the given answers.
(c) It didn't matter, because the value is the same.
(d) Yes, because the land is useless.

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

4. A committee urges Japanese families in Hawaii to have their children's names removed from the registers in their Japanese villages, thereby canceling their Japanese citizenship. What is Kamejiro's response?
(a) He is away and doesn't hear the committee's advice.
(b) He agrees to do so immediately.
(c) He refuses, in spite of his family's pleas.
(d) He is undecided.

5. When a slave woman weeps because her husband is going to be sacrificed, what happens?
(a) Her husband is spared.
(b) She is laughed at.
(c) She is killed.
(d) She is rewarded.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What best describes the stores owned and operated by Char Nyuk Tsin and her family, the Kees?

3. Who does Noelani, Malama's royal daughter, marry?

4. In 1942, when Hoxworth Hale tours the South Pacific in search of good sites for airstrips, where do his travels take him?

5. What is the name of Teroro's wife?

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