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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, From the Starving Village.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The lowland people are the Punti. How do they behave toward the highland Hakka?
(a) The two groups work together in harmony.
(b) The Hakka enslave the Punti.
(c) They share no friendly contact.
(d) The Punti enslave the Hakka.

3. Who is the old man who walks into a Chinese temple on the island of Maui, screams at the people there, and hits objects with his cane?
(a) Keoki Kanakoa.
(b) John Whipple.
(c) Abner Hale.
(d) Captain Hoxworth.

4. What good omen appears during the voyage?
(a) A new star.
(b) A flying fish.
(c) Another ship.
(d) A mermaid.

5. How does Abner meet John Whipple?
(a) John is Abner's servant.
(b) John is Abner's minister.
(c) John is Abner's roommate at Yale.
(d) John is Abner's cousin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the site of the island king's first new settlement?

2. What are the Seven Little Eyes?

3. What kind of man is Big Saul at the Molokai leper colony?

4. How deeply was the island submerged?

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

(see the answer key)

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