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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. Why does Abner Hale marry Jerusha Bromley?
(a) To win a bet.
(b) All missionaries are required to marry.
(c) To avoid going to jail.
(d) He falls in love with her.

2. What is trapped in the rocks because of how they are formed?
(a) Oil.
(b) Diamonds.
(c) Water.
(d) Uranium.

3. What convinces Abner to become a missionary and go to Hawaii?
(a) The terms of Abner's father's will.
(b) It has been Abner's life-long ambition.
(c) A message in a fortune cookie.
(d) Keoki Kanakoa's lecture at Yale University.

4. Abner condemns the Hawaiian practice of polygamy. What is polygamy?
(a) Being married to more than one person at a time.
(b) Public drunkness.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Worshipping false gods.

5. What series of natural phenomena are described as the cause of events in the opening section?
(a) Avalanches.
(b) Volcanic eruptions.
(c) Hurricanes.
(d) Blizzards.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Abner's oldest son married Noelani's daughter, how does Abner react?

2. What living creatures are likely to discover a new island?

3. How deeply was the island submerged?

4. What is the primary setting of Chapter 2?

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

(see the answer key)

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