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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What two kinds of animals does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage to use for meat?
(a) Chickens and dogs.
(b) Pigeons and chickens.
(c) Goats and sheep.
(d) Lambs and pigs.

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

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

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

6. When Kelolo teaches Hawaiian history to Abner, how many generations does he say have been born since the original founding journey from Bora Bora?
(a) 7 generations.
(b) 31 generations.
(c) 883 generations.
(d) 128 generations.

7. What time span is covered in Chapter 1?
(a) A century.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Millions of years.
(d) A week.

8. How does Malama, the royal Anii-Nui, treat the missionaries when they arrive in Hawaii?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) She decides to dress like the missionaries.
(c) She asks them to teach her to read and write English.
(d) She greets them warmly.

9. After much argument, what is sacrificed when the island king and his people build a temple at their new home?
(a) One slave.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Four slaves.
(d) Fish.

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

11. Learning that the high priest plans to betray the island king, the king and his followers plan to escape by sailing in what direction?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) East.

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

13. At the time of their journey, seven centuries before Columbus, what people had sailed the farthest?
(a) The people of the island king.
(b) The Chinese.
(c) The Vikings.
(d) The Phoenicians.

14. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Fire.
(c) A plant seed.
(d) A message.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the volcano goddess?

2. What god was the island chief's father sacrificed to appease?

3. What does John Whipple do for the community after he leaves missionary work?

4. During the voyage, what does it mean when the sailors spot flocks of birds catching fish?

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

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