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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, From the Sun Swept Lagoon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What best describes the island civilization described in Chapter 2?
(a) Starving.
(b) Powerful and sophisticated.
(c) Sickly.
(d) Weak and disorganized.

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

3. What good omen appears during the voyage?
(a) Another ship.
(b) A new star.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A flying fish.

4. What is one reason that the sailors sail back to their original island during Chapter 2?
(a) To hunt for birds.
(b) To give up and go home.
(c) To attack their former village.
(d) To reunite Teroro with Marama.

5. What god does the island king silently accept, at the temple ceremony?
(a) Tane.
(b) Pere.
(c) Havaiki.
(d) Oro.

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 beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?

3. What body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?

4. What bad omen does the island king experience before he sails away?

5. When a slave woman weeps because her husband is going to be sacrificed, what happens?

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