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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. What good omen appears during the voyage?
2. After Jerusha dies, what happens to her children?
3. During the voyage, what does it mean when the sailors spot flocks of birds catching fish?
4. How do the other missionaries on the voyage to Hawaii feel about Abner?
5. What is the name of Teroro's wife?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How could new plants and life forms reach an island as isolated as the one described in Chapter 1?
3. How well do King Tamatoa and the high priest get along, and why do you think so?
4. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
5. Abner and his wife, Jerusha, had four children. When Jerusha dies, what becomes of their children?
6. What are the earliest life forms that an island can support, once it has formed soil?
7. 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?
8. 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?
9. What happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the reasons why Reiko Sakagawa was not given the same opportunities as her four brothers to attend college, whether you believe that her father's choices and actions toward her were affected by her gender, and why you feel that those choices and actions were or were not fair.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast King Tamatoa of Bora Bora and his brother, Teroro. Explore the positive and negative traits of both men. Which of them do you find more admirable, and why? Please illustrate your reasons with specific examples and information from Chapter 2.
Essay Topic 3
Examine the character of Char Nyuk Tsin. What were her most admirable traits? What traits made her life more difficult? How does Michener use her as a lens through which to view the changes in Hawaii between the 1860's and the 1950's?
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