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

3. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?
(a) A message.
(b) A plant seed.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Fire.

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

5. How does Malama, the royal Anii-Nui, treat the missionaries when they arrive in Hawaii?
(a) She decides to dress like the missionaries.
(b) She greets them warmly.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) She asks them to teach her to read and write English.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What causes lava rock to decompose?

3. Why is Char Nyuk Tsin, daughter of a Hakka chief, unmarried at the age of seventeen?

4. How far below the surface did fissures form?

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

(see the answer key)

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