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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 bad omen does the island king experience before he sails away?
2. Abner condemns the Hawaiian practice of polygamy. What is polygamy?
3. Who does Noelani, Malama's royal daughter, marry?
4. How did trees first begin to grow on the island?
5. What happens to the site of the island king's first new settlement?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. What does King Tamatoa plan to do about his conflict with the powerful and dangerous high priest?
4. What were likely to be the earliest living creatures to visit the newly formed island in Chapter 1?
5. Malama wants to study how to read and write in English. Abner Hale wants her to learn about God first. How is this impasse resolved?
6. Since a new island is made of bare rock, where its soil come from?
7. 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?
8. In Chapter 1, what natural feature does author James Michener describe as dwarfing all others on Earth, and why?
9. How does the voyage go, and what good and/or bad omens do the travelers encounter?
10. What happens to the first new village site the king and his followers choose, and is what happens good or bad?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What might have happened differently if all of the missionaries who initially came to Hawaii had been like Abner Hale? What might have happened differently if they had all been like John Whipple?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 3, Abner Hale and John Whipple begin as roommates at Yale, and both answer the call to do missionary work in Hawaii, but their paths soon diverge as their decisions bring them into greater and greater conflict with one another. Which of these men eventually feels more fulfilled by the life choices he has made, and why?
Essay Topic 3
Cultures and ethnic groups that are thrown together geographically have two basic choices: they can clash or they can blend. Show examples of each from HAWAII.
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