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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, From the Farm of Bitterness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 1, what best describes the island?
(a) Still submerged.
(b) Still bare rock.
(c) Still uninhabited.
(d) Inhabited by native tribes.

2. What happens after Abner delivers Urania Hewlett's baby?
(a) Urania names the baby "Abner."
(b) The baby dies.
(c) Malama throws a party for Urania.
(d) Urania dies.

3. In Chapter 3, what subject does Abner Hale study at Yale University?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Law.
(d) Divinity.

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

5. When the second chain of islands formed in the southeast, how long was it?
(a) Two thousand miles long.
(b) Two miles long.
(c) Two hundred miles long.
(d) Two million miles long.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the island submerged, what formed over it?

2. What threatens to destroy the city of Hilo?

3. What are the Seven Little Eyes?

4. How does Abner meet John Whipple?

5. What does decomposed lava rock create?

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