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

2. How did trees first begin to grow on the island?
(a) The wood from rafts took root.
(b) Natives planted orchards.
(c) Storm winds carried saplings to shore.
(d) Birds pecked at seeds.

3. During the voyage, what does it mean when the sailors spot flocks of birds catching fish?
(a) That sunset is near.
(b) That land is near.
(c) That a storm is coming.
(d) That the voyage is doomed.

4. What beneficial things may have reached the island by being caught up in the wind?
(a) Bamboo.
(b) Maps.
(c) Insects.
(d) Monkeys.

5. The island king plans to take supplies and sixty people with him when he escapes, and sail with them for how many days?
(a) Six.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Six hundred.
(d) Sixty.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the island king attends the temple ceremony, what is displayed there?

2. What is the primary setting of Chapter 2?

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

4. What god does the island king silently accept, at the temple ceremony?

5. What two kinds of animals does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage to use for meat?

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