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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 would the island paradise lack, when it was finally discovered by people?
(a) Water.
(b) Food.
(c) Birds.
(d) Flowers.

2. What is true about the body of water in Chapter 1?
(a) Life began there.
(b) None of the given answers.
(c) Both of the given answers.
(d) It sometimes flooded the land.

3. What god was the island chief's father sacrificed to appease?
(a) Oro.
(b) Pere.
(c) Havaiki.
(d) Tane.

4. What bad omen does the island king experience before he sails away?
(a) A fire that won't start.
(b) A bad dream.
(c) A cloud shaped like a fist.
(d) A broken bone.

5. After much argument, what is sacrificed when the island king and his people build a temple at their new home?
(a) Fish.
(b) One slave.
(c) Four slaves.
(d) Pigs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Abner Hale marry Jerusha Bromley?

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

3. What is an accurate description of the earliest beaches?

4. When the island submerged, what formed over it?

5. What good omen appears during the voyage?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What is Abner's reaction when the crew of a docked whaling ship go on a rampage through the settlement, sacking the homes of Hawaiians and raping their women?

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

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

10. Malama wants to study how to read and write in English. Abner Hale wants her to learn about God first. How is this impasse resolved?

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