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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 god was the island chief's father sacrificed to appease?
(a) Havaiki.
(b) Oro.
(c) Pere.
(d) Tane.
2. What convinces Abner to become a missionary and go to Hawaii?
(a) A message in a fortune cookie.
(b) Keoki Kanakoa's lecture at Yale University.
(c) The terms of Abner's father's will.
(d) It has been Abner's life-long ambition.
3. When the island king attends the temple ceremony, what is displayed there?
(a) A stack of dead bodies.
(b) Piles of gold bars.
(c) Baskets of flowers.
(d) Offerings of food.
4. What else does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage?
(a) Saplings and roots to plant.
(b) Bags of gold coins to trade for food.
(c) Toys to amuse the children.
(d) Wood for carving a totem pole.
5. What is the name of the newest god and the island of the gods?
(a) Oro.
(b) Pere.
(c) Tane.
(d) Havaiki.
Short Answer Questions
1. What causes lava rock to decompose?
2. How do the other missionaries on the voyage to Hawaii feel about Abner?
3. What happens after Abner delivers Urania Hewlett's baby?
4. How deeply was the island submerged?
5. What time span is covered in Chapter 1?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How well do King Tamatoa and the high priest get along, and why do you think so?
3. Is the formation of a new island a quick process? Why or why not?
4. What hard emotional choice much Teroro make, when it is time for the group to sail north?
5. What were likely to be the earliest living creatures to visit the newly formed island in Chapter 1?
6. Teroro is King Tamatoa's brother. Is he loyal to the king or loyal to the high priest? How can you tell?
7. What does King Tamatoa plan to do about his conflict with the powerful and dangerous high priest?
8. How does the voyage go, and what good and/or bad omens do the travelers encounter?
9. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
10. What does James Michener think of the civilization that existed on the island of Bora Bora at the time that we first see the villagers in Chapter 2?
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