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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 Jesus and Mohammed were alive, what stage were the islands at?
(a) Not even begun.
(b) Still forming.
(c) Fire-ravaged.
(d) Completely formed.

2. What is Kee Chun Fat's advice to the men who are moving to Hawaii?
(a) Only have a wife in Hawaii.
(b) Do not get married at all.
(c) Only have a wife who stays in China.
(d) Have one wife in China and another wife in Hawaii.

3. What does Whip Hoxworth believe is the future of Hawaii?
(a) Sugar and pineapples.
(b) Pearls and coral.
(c) Orchids and ginger flowers.
(d) Pigs and chickens.

4. What happens to Hashimoto (a friend of Kamejiro's) after he marries a Hawaiian girl?
(a) He is fired from his job.
(b) All of the given answers.
(c) He is forbidden to attend the Japanese church.
(d) He is treated like an outcast.

5. What is objectionable about the Cayenne pineapples introduced by Schilling?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) They are susceptible to mealy bugs.
(c) They have trouble absorbing iron from the soil.
(d) They grow too big for the cans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does John Whipple come to China in 1865?

2. Learning that the high priest plans to betray the island king, the king and his followers plan to escape by sailing in what direction?

3. What are Char Nyuk Tsin and Mun Ki's sons named after?

4. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?

5. What is lava?

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