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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. In comparison with the other land masses on the planet, what best describes these islands?
(a) Older.
(b) Colder.
(c) Younger.
(d) Bigger.

3. What is true about the body of water in Chapter 1?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) It sometimes flooded the land.
(c) Life began there.
(d) Both of the given answers.

4. What is the name of the island king?
(a) Polynesia.
(b) Tamatoa.
(c) Rotarua.
(d) Villanova.

5. Who is the volcano goddess?
(a) Tane.
(b) Oro.
(c) Villanova.
(d) Pele.

6. Who is challenging the island king for power?
(a) His son.
(b) His brother.
(c) The high priest.
(d) The queen of a nearby island.

7. When the island submerged again, what formed around it?
(a) A whirlpool.
(b) A rainbow.
(c) A coral reef.
(d) A harbor.

8. After nine years in Hawaii, how many children do Abner and Jerusha have?
(a) Eight.
(b) None.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

9. What does decomposed lava rock create?
(a) Quicksand.
(b) Algae.
(c) Soil.
(d) Diamonds.

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

11. What body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?
(a) The Indian Ocean.
(b) The Pacific Ocean.
(c) The Arctic Ocean.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

12. What beneficial things may have reached the island by being caught up in the wind?
(a) Bamboo.
(b) Maps.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Insects.

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

14. What god was the island chief's father sacrificed to appease?
(a) Havaiki.
(b) Pere.
(c) Tane.
(d) Oro.

15. What word best describes the foliage on the island at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Desert-like.
(b) Sparse.
(c) Unique.
(d) Poisonous.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Abner meet John Whipple?

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 threatens to destroy the city of Hilo?

4. What is an accurate description of the earliest beaches?

5. What is the name of the science that studies how the earth is formed?

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