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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. When Malama dies, what keepsake does Kelolo claim?
3. When a slave woman weeps because her husband is going to be sacrificed, what happens?
4. Abner condemns the Hawaiian practice of polygamy. What is polygamy?
5. What threatens to destroy the city of Hilo?
Short Essay Questions
1. Is the formation of a new island a quick process? Why or why not?
2. 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?
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. In Chapter 3, why does the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) insist that Abner Hale get married before he is allowed to sail to Hawaii as a missionary?
5. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
6. How well do King Tamatoa and the high priest get along, and why do you think so?
7. What were likely to be the earliest living creatures to visit the newly formed island in Chapter 1?
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 happened, millions of years ago, when a rupture occurred on the ocean floor?
10. How does the voyage go, and what good and/or bad omens do the travelers encounter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Describe what happened politically in Hawaii between the ascension of Queen Liliuokalani to the throne in 1891 and Hawaii's annexation by the United States in 1898. What actions did Micah Hale and the white politicians take, and how do you feel about the fairness of those actions?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the Hawaiian experience of missionary Abraham Hewlett, first with his wife Urania and then, after her death, with his wife Malia. Then compare and contrast how Hewlett was treated by Abner Hale and how he was treated by John Whipple.
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