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

2. What important position does the king's uncle, Tupuna, pass down to Teroro?
(a) King.
(b) Slave.
(c) Human sacrifice.
(d) Priest.

3. How many letters are there in Hawaiian alphabet?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Fifty-seven.
(c) Six.
(d) Twenty-six.

4. 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 hundred.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Sixty.
(d) Six.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is challenging the island king for power?

2. After three years in Hawaii, what task is Abner still trying to complete?

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

4. Why does Abner Hale marry Jerusha Bromley?

5. At the end of Chapter 1, what best describes the island?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. In Chapter 3, why does the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) insist that Abner Hale get married before he is allowed to sail to Hawaii as a missionary?

4. How does Abner Hale react when he is told that Hawaiians, including their Alii Nui (queen), Malama, practice polygamy, and that the rocks in the garden are family gods?

5. Teroro is King Tamatoa's brother. Is he loyal to the king or loyal to the high priest? How can you tell?

6. How well do King Tamatoa and the high priest get along, and why do you think so?

7. How could new plants and life forms reach an island as isolated as the one described in Chapter 1?

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. Once an island finally reaches the ocean's surface, is its presence there permanent? Why or why not?

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