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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 else does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage?
(a) Toys to amuse the children.
(b) Wood for carving a totem pole.
(c) Saplings and roots to plant.
(d) Bags of gold coins to trade for food.

2. In Chapter 3, what subject does Abner Hale study at Yale University?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Divinity.

3. Who or what is Wait-for-the-West-Wind?
(a) A village.
(b) A girl.
(c) A god.
(d) A ship.

4. Why does Abner preach the first Sunday service on the voyage to Hawaii?
(a) He is the only missionary who isn't seasick.
(b) He was tricked into preaching.
(c) He bribed the captain to let him preach first.
(d) He is the oldest missionary.

5. What happens on December 7, 1941, the day after the committee visits Kamejiro's house?
(a) United States bombers attack Japan.
(b) Kamejiro's house is burned down.
(c) The U.S. and Japan become allies.
(d) Japanese bombers attack Pearl Harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the volcano goddess?

2. When Reiko's family's objection to the romance causes Lieutenant Jackson to be sent away, who does her family arrange for her to marry instead?

3. What starts happening to Japanese people in Hawaii on December 10, 1941?

4. What two kinds of animals does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage to use for meat?

5. When Mark Whipple offers to lead a unit of Japanese soldiers into battle in Europe against the Germans, how many Japanese men volunteer to join the new unit, known as the 222nd?

(see the answer key)

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