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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. 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) Sixty.
(c) Sixteen.
(d) Six.

2. What does Keoki tell Abner about the rocks in Malama's garden?
(a) All of the given answers.
(b) They are souvenirs of Malama's travels.
(c) They are grave markers.
(d) They are family gods.

3. When the island king attends the temple ceremony, what is displayed there?
(a) Piles of gold bars.
(b) Offerings of food.
(c) A stack of dead bodies.
(d) Baskets of flowers.

4. How far below the surface did fissures form?
(a) Four miles down.
(b) Forty miles down.
(c) Four feet down.
(d) Four yards down.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Malama dies, what keepsake does Kelolo claim?

2. What time span is covered in Chapter 1?

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

4. How long will the sailing voyage from New England to Hawaii take?

5. What two kinds of animals does the island king plan to take along on the escape voyage to use for meat?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the voyage go, and what good and/or bad omens do the travelers encounter?

2. What does King Tamatoa plan to do about his conflict with the powerful and dangerous high priest?

3. In Chapter 1, what natural feature does author James Michener describe as dwarfing all others on Earth, and why?

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

5. Abner and his wife, Jerusha, had four children. When Jerusha dies, what becomes of their children?

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

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

8. Three years after Mrs. Hewlett's death, Mr. Hewlett marries a Hawaiian girl. How do the ABCFM and the local missionary community react to this news?

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

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