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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 is an accurate description of the earliest beaches?
(a) Bare rock with no sand.
(b) Rock covered by sand dunes.
(c) Rock covered by small bushes.
(d) Sand covered by tall trees.

2. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?
(a) Rocky.
(b) Barren.
(c) Clay-like.
(d) Sandy.

3. When Jesus and Mohammed were alive, what stage were the islands at?
(a) Still forming.
(b) Fire-ravaged.
(c) Completely formed.
(d) Not even begun.

4. At the time of their journey, seven centuries before Columbus, what people had sailed the farthest?
(a) The Vikings.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The people of the island king.
(d) The Phoenicians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is challenging the island king for power?

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

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

4. How deeply was the island submerged?

5. What god do the island king and his people worship, to the high priest's displeasure?

(see the answer key)

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