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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 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.

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

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

4. What can underwater eruptions cause?
(a) Rainbows.
(b) Tidal waves.
(c) Snow.
(d) Crop growth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Abner's oldest son married Noelani's daughter, how does Abner react?

2. What is a submerged island called when it reaches the ocean's surface?

3. During the voyage from New England to Hawaii, how many people must share each small cabin?

4. What happens to the site of the island king's first new settlement?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Once the king and his followers settle at their new village site, they make many important decisions about their future. Pick one and discuss it briefly.

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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