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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. Who is Kelolo?
(a) Keoki Kanakoa's father.
(b) None of the given answers.
(c) One of Malama's husbands.
(d) Both of the given answers.

2. What time span is covered in Chapter 1?
(a) A century.
(b) A week.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Millions of years.

3. Why does John Whipple come to China in 1865?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) To visit distant relatives.
(c) To take a vacation.
(d) To hire workers for the Hawaiian sugar fields.

4. In 1902, in the Japanese village of Hiroshima-ken, villagers use an ancient courtship custom. According to this custom, what should a young suitor do regarding the young woman he wishes to court?
(a) Kidnap the girl he desires.
(b) Stand before her 12 times in one week without speaking.
(c) Pay her parents for the privilege of courting her.
(d) Send white flowers to her, every day for a month.

5. When the island king attends the temple ceremony, what is displayed there?
(a) Baskets of flowers.
(b) Offerings of food.
(c) A stack of dead bodies.
(d) Piles of gold bars.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Kamejiro and his wife have trouble saving $400?

2. Who or what is Wait-for-the-West-Wind?

3. After 13 years in Hawaii, Kamejiro and his friend Ishii-san both send away to Japan for a bride. What happens when the two young women arrive?

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

5. What is Kee Chun Fat's advice to the men who are moving to Hawaii?

(see the answer key)

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