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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 relation is Teroro to the island king?
2. What does John Whipple do for the community after he leaves missionary work?
3. The island king avoids the celebration after the ceremony, and instead goes home with 14-year-old Tehani. Who is Tehani's father?
4. What two ways does John Whipple plan to serve God?
5. What task is assigned to the missionaries?
Short Essay Questions
1. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
2. After the island in Chapter 1 was fully formed, the earth shifted, sinking it under 1,200 feet of water again for millions of years. What new feature formed around the island during that time?
3. How could new plants and life forms reach an island as isolated as the one described in Chapter 1?
4. What happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?
5. Teroro is King Tamatoa's brother. Is he loyal to the king or loyal to the high priest? How can you tell?
6. How does Abner Hale react when he is told that Hawaiians, including their Alii Nui (queen), Malama, practice polygamy, and that the rocks in the garden are family gods?
7. In Chapter 1, what natural feature does author James Michener describe as dwarfing all others on Earth, and why?
8. 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.
9. What hard emotional choice much Teroro make, when it is time for the group to sail north?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In her 100th year, Nyuk Tsin offers the following piece of advice to her grandson, Hong Kong Kee: "If someone wants to hurt you, keep him off balance. Make him take the first step toward you, for then you can watch him coming and take precautions." Discuss how this advice applies to decisions that Nyuk Tsin has made during her long life.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the relationship shared by each of the following couples:
(a) Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha;
(b) Mun Ki and his wife Nyuk Tsin; and
(c) Malama (the Alii Nui) and her husband Kelolo
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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