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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John Whipple do for the community after he leaves missionary work?
(a) Her performs marriages.
(b) He runs a successful business.
(c) All of the given answers.
(d) He offers medical treatment.

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

3. Who helps Jerusha when her first child, a son, is born?
(a) Abner.
(b) A Hawaiian midwife.
(c) John Whipple.
(d) Malama.

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

5. What are the Seven Little Eyes?
(a) Stars.
(b) Ships.
(c) Followers of the high priest.
(d) A chain of islands.

6. What is a submerged island called when it reaches the ocean's surface?
(a) Rupture.
(b) Land.
(c) Lava.
(d) Fissure.

7. During the voyage, what does it mean when the sailors spot flocks of birds catching fish?
(a) That land is near.
(b) That the voyage is doomed.
(c) That sunset is near.
(d) That a storm is coming.

8. When Abner's oldest son married Noelani's daughter, how does Abner react?
(a) He confesses that he wanted to marry her, himself.
(b) He welcomes her into the family.
(c) He is rude to her and calls her a heathen.
(d) He burns down their new house.

9. The island king plans to take supplies and sixty people with him when he escapes, and sail with them for how many days?
(a) Six.
(b) Six hundred.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Sixteen.

10. In Chapter 3, what subject does Abner Hale study at Yale University?
(a) Agriculture.
(b) Divinity.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Law.

11. How deeply was the island submerged?
(a) Twelve inches.
(b) Twelve hundred feet.
(c) Twelve feet.
(d) Twelve dozen feet.

12. What percent of Lahaina's population dies in the measles epidemic?
(a) 10%
(b) 33%
(c) 80%
(d) 0%

13. What early life forms can the ocean bring to an island?
(a) None of the given answers.
(b) Lichens.
(c) Moss.
(d) Both of the given answers.

14. The island king avoids the celebration after the ceremony, and instead goes home with 14-year-old Tehani. Who is Tehani's father?
(a) The high priest.
(b) Teroro.
(c) Marama.
(d) King Tatai.

15. What best describes the island civilization described in Chapter 2?
(a) Weak and disorganized.
(b) Powerful and sophisticated.
(c) Starving.
(d) Sickly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the primary setting of Chapter 2?

2. When Malama dies, what keepsake does Kelolo claim?

3. What is the name of Teroro's wife?

4. After much argument, what is sacrificed when the island king and his people build a temple at their new home?

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

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