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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What living creatures are likely to discover a new island?
(a) Dogs and cats.
(b) Lions and tigers.
(c) Bears and monkeys.
(d) Fish and birds.

2. When a slave woman weeps because her husband is going to be sacrificed, what happens?
(a) She is laughed at.
(b) Her husband is spared.
(c) She is rewarded.
(d) She is killed.

3. What good omen appears during the voyage?
(a) Another ship.
(b) A flying fish.
(c) A mermaid.
(d) A new star.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes lava rock to decompose?

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 word best describes the foliage on the island at the end of Chapter 1?

4. Who or what is Wait-for-the-West-Wind?

5. After nine years in Hawaii, how many children do Abner and Jerusha have?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Alii Nui, Malama, dies, and her daughter Neolani becomes the new Alii Nui in her place. What is Malama's dying wish, and do Malama's family members and Abner honor it?

2. Nine years later, Abner is delighted to learn that his oldest son, Micah, is returning to Hawaii as a minister. But when he meets the ship, he learns that Micah has married the daughter of Neolani (and granddaughter of the old Alii-Nui, Malama). How does Abner react to this news?

3. What do the king and his brother, Teroro, argue bitterly about, when the time comes to build the first temple on their new island, and what compromise do they reach?

4. What happens to the first new village site the king and his followers choose, and is what happens good or bad?

5. When the wife of missionary Abraham Hewlett goes into labor, Abner must deliver the baby. He consults his book on midwifery but won't gather the herbs that the Hawaiian women say that Mrs. Hewlett will need after the birth. What happens as a result?

6. What are the earliest life forms that an island can support, once it has formed soil?

7. What happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?

8. After the island in Chapter 1 was fully formed, the earth shifted, sinking it under 1,200 feet of water again for millions of years. What new feature formed around the island during that time?

9. By the time the island emerged again and developed into a lush paradise of unique foliage, ready for discovery, what was the one thing lacking that human explorers would need?

10. What dangerous message does Teroro receive from Tehani, the fourteen-year-old girl who takes him to her sleeping quarters after the convocation?

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