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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an accurate description of the earliest beaches?
(a) Sand covered by tall trees.
(b) Rock covered by sand dunes.
(c) Rock covered by small bushes.
(d) Bare rock with no sand.

2. What would the island paradise lack, when it was finally discovered by people?
(a) Birds.
(b) Water.
(c) Food.
(d) Flowers.

3. What happens to the site of the island king's first new settlement?
(a) It prospers.
(b) It is attacked by natives.
(c) It is consumed by a tidal wave and lava.
(d) It is attached by hornets.

4. What threatens to destroy the city of Hilo?
(a) A native uprising.
(b) A flow of molten lava.
(c) A warship from Bora Bora.
(d) A flock of angry seagulls.

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

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

7. What is the name of Teroro's wife?
(a) Timomo.
(b) Marama.
(c) Bast.
(d) Keto.

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

9. How far below the surface did fissures form?
(a) Four yards down.
(b) Four miles down.
(c) Forty miles down.
(d) Four feet down.

10. Who or what is Wait-for-the-West-Wind?
(a) A god.
(b) A ship.
(c) A girl.
(d) A village.

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is challenging the island king for power?

2. What living creatures are likely to discover a new island?

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

4. How does Abner meet John Whipple?

5. What god do the island king and his people worship, to the high priest's displeasure?

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