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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 body of water serves as the setting for the opening section?
(a) The Indian Ocean.
(b) The Arctic Ocean.
(c) The Pacific Ocean.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

2. Once an island is formed, what can further eruptions cause?
(a) Mountains.
(b) Valleys.
(c) Cliffs.
(d) All of the given answers.

3. Who is the volcano goddess?
(a) Oro.
(b) Tane.
(c) Villanova.
(d) Pele.

4. What two ways does John Whipple plan to serve God?
(a) As missionary and cook.
(b) As doctor and missionary.
(c) As cook and doctor.
(d) As missionary and sailor.

5. What is an accurate description of the earliest body of water?
(a) Calm and stagnant.
(b) Completely warm and tropical.
(c) Partly cold with some ice.
(d) Completely frozen.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After Jerusha dies, what happens to her children?

3. What best describes the island civilization described in Chapter 2?

4. The island king avoids the celebration after the ceremony, and instead goes home with 14-year-old Tehani. Who is Tehani's father?

5. After much argument, what is sacrificed when the island king and his people build a temple at their new home?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is the formation of a new island a quick process? Why or why not?

3. 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?

4. What hard emotional choice much Teroro make, when it is time for the group to sail north?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

9. What were likely to be the earliest living creatures to visit the newly formed island in Chapter 1?

10. 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?

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