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

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 laughed at.
(c) She is killed.
(d) She is rewarded.

2. When the island king attends the temple ceremony, what is displayed there?
(a) Offerings of food.
(b) A stack of dead bodies.
(c) Piles of gold bars.
(d) Baskets of flowers.

3. What word best describes the kind of soil eventually created on the island?
(a) Sandy.
(b) Clay-like.
(c) Barren.
(d) Rocky.

4. What bad omen does the island king experience before he sails away?
(a) A cloud shaped like a fist.
(b) A bad dream.
(c) A broken bone.
(d) A fire that won't start.

5. After three years in Hawaii, what task is Abner still trying to complete?
(a) His sea shell collection.
(b) The construction of his first church.
(c) Translating the Bible into Hawaiian.
(d) Learning to surf.

6. What relation is Teroro to the island king?
(a) His neighbor.
(b) His enemy.
(c) His brother.
(d) His son.

7. What is lava?
(a) A kind of sea weed.
(b) Liquid molten rock.
(c) Floating wood.
(d) A kind of sea bird.

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

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

10. What happens after Abner delivers Urania Hewlett's baby?
(a) Malama throws a party for Urania.
(b) Urania dies.
(c) Urania names the baby "Abner."
(d) The baby dies.

11. What two ways does John Whipple plan to serve God?
(a) As missionary and cook.
(b) As cook and doctor.
(c) As missionary and sailor.
(d) As doctor and missionary.

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

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

14. What is the name of the newest god and the island of the gods?
(a) Oro.
(b) Tane.
(c) Pere.
(d) Havaiki.

15. How do the other missionaries on the voyage to Hawaii feel about Abner?
(a) They ignore him.
(b) They laugh at him.
(c) They worhsip him.
(d) They look to him for guidance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What announcement does Jerusha make when she reaches Hawaii?

2. What is true about the body of water in Chapter 1?

3. What beneficial things may have reached the island by being caught up in the wind?

4. What does Keoki tell Abner about the rocks in Malama's garden?

5. Why does Abner Hale marry Jerusha Bromley?

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