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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, From the Starving Village.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would the island paradise lack, when it was finally discovered by people?
(a) Water.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Food.
(d) Birds.

2. After much argument, what is sacrificed when the island king and his people build a temple at their new home?
(a) Fish.
(b) Four slaves.
(c) One slave.
(d) Pigs.

3. What early life forms can the ocean bring to an island?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) Both of the given answers.
(c) Lichens.
(d) Moss.

4. What important event takes place on July 6, 1898?
(a) Queen Liliuokalani dies.
(b) U.S. House of Representatives refuses to annex Hawaii.
(c) Hawaii becomes the 50th U.S. state.
(d) U.S. House of Representatives votes to annex Hawaii.

5. What is the relationship between Kee Chun Fat (who made his fortune in the California gold fields) and Mun Ki (who works as a cook in a brothel in Macao)?
(a) They are uncle and nephew.
(b) They are strangers.
(c) They are father and son.
(d) They are brothers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What world leader's death is mentioned as occurring around the time period described in Chapter 2?

2. What is lava?

3. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?

4. After three years in Hawaii, what task is Abner still trying to complete?

5. When the island submerged, what formed over it?

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