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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many letters are there in Hawaiian alphabet?
2. What does decomposed lava rock create?
3. What beneficial object may have reached the island in bird excrement?
4. Abner condemns the Hawaiian practice of polygamy. What is polygamy?
5. What good omen appears during the voyage?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to the first new village site the king and his followers choose, and is what happens good or bad?
2. 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?
3. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
4. What hard emotional choice much Teroro make, when it is time for the group to sail north?
5. 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?
6. Once an island finally reaches the ocean's surface, is its presence there permanent? Why or why not?
7. 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.
8. Teroro is King Tamatoa's brother. Is he loyal to the king or loyal to the high priest? How can you tell?
9. The Alii Nui, Malama, dies, and her daughter Neolani becomes the new Alii Nui in her place. What is Malama's dying wish, and do Malama's family members and Abner honor it?
10. How well do King Tamatoa and the high priest get along, and why do you think so?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did the geographic isolation of Hawaii affect its history, from the time of King Tamatoa's arrival in the 9th century through its annexation by the United States in 1898?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the history of intermarriage between the family lines of the original missionary families (Hale, Whipple, Hoxworth, Hewlett, and Janders). How is it reflected in their children's names? How did it affect business decisions, alliances and rivalries between the various families, in the century that followed?
Essay Topic 3
Explore Abner Hale's reaction to his son Micah's return to Hawaii in 1849, and how that reaction changes when he is introduced to Micah's new bride, Malama Hoxworth. Explore the personal histories that account for Abner Hale's extreme reaction, and explain how this incident was a major contributing factor in the establishment of the powerful company known as Hoxworth and Hale.
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