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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 is the primary setting of Chapter 2?
(a) Bora Bora.
(b) Puerto Rico.
(c) Malta.
(d) Corsica.

2. How does the leper colony change after Big Saul dies?
(a) The people there plant gardens.
(b) The people there look after and help one another.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) The people there implement the rules they need.

3. What does decomposed lava rock create?
(a) Diamonds.
(b) Quicksand.
(c) Soil.
(d) Algae.

4. What does Whip Hoxworth bring from Formosa and ask Char Nyuk Tsin to plant?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Pineapple plants.
(c) Rice.
(d) Orchids.

5. In 1825, how much do the missionaries earn per year?
(a) Two thousand dollars per year.
(b) They receive no salary at all.
(c) Twenty dollars per year.
(d) Two hundred dollars per year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?

2. How do the other missionaries on the voyage to Hawaii feel about Abner?

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

4. During the voyage from New England to Hawaii, how many people must share each small cabin?

5. Learning that the high priest plans to betray the island king, the king and his followers plan to escape by sailing in what direction?

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