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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, From the Inland Sea.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a slave woman weeps because her husband is going to be sacrificed, what happens?
(a) Her husband is spared.
(b) She is rewarded.
(c) She is killed.
(d) She is laughed at.

2. Mark Whipple (West Point graduate and grandson of Dr. John Whipple) is resented by members of the Chinese community. Why?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) His father ordered Chinatown's destruction during the plague epidemic.
(c) He is a member of the military.
(d) He is descended from missionaries.

3. What task is assigned to the missionaries?
(a) To teach the natives how to grow tobacco.
(b) To teach Latin to the natives.
(c) To learn how to surf.
(d) To translate the Bible into Hawaiian.

4. When Mun Ki is diagnosed with leprosy and sent to the leper colony on Molokai, accompanied by his pregnant wife, Char Nyuk Tsin, what do the two of them find there?
(a) An elaborate church but no clinic.
(b) A simple village with a clinic.
(c) A state-of-the-art hospital.
(d) Nothing but grass huts.

5. In 1825, how much do the missionaries earn per year?
(a) Two thousand dollars per year.
(b) They receive no salary at all.
(c) Twenty dollars per year.
(d) Two hundred dollars per year.

Short Answer Questions

1. The island king plans to take supplies and sixty people with him when he escapes, and sail with them for how many days?

2. What world leader's death is mentioned as occurring around the time period described in Chapter 2?

3. How did trees first begin to grow on the island?

4. Who does Noelani, Malama's royal daughter, marry?

5. What kind of document does Bromley Hale write about conditions on the original missionary ship that brought his relatives to Hawaii?

(see the answer key)

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