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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 4-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which animal was Honolulu overrun with in all different shapes and sizes?
(a) Cats.
(b) Mice.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Birds.

2. What animals were included in the livestock that passengers teased in chapter 2?
(a) A bull, chicken, and a pig.
(b) A bull, sheep, and a pig.
(c) An ox, sheep, and a pig.
(d) An ox, chicken, and a pig.

3. As Twain recalls in chapter 1, who boarded the ship in a drunken state?
(a) Neither Twain nor his fellow passengers.
(b) Twain and his fellow passengers.
(c) Twain's fellow passengers, but not him.
(d) Twain, but not his fellow passengers.

4. What confounded Twain about the sailors in chapter 2?
(a) Their odd sense of humor.
(b) Their strange vernacular.
(c) Their strange eating habits.
(d) Their odd sense of timing.

5. Where did Twain ride in a buggy to after staying too long at the government prison in chapter 6?
(a) Kanaha Pond.
(b) Mauna Kea.
(c) Diamond Head.
(d) Iao Valley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What card game did Twain play with the sailors in chapter 2?

2. How many churches did Twain write about in chapter 4?

3. What differences in Honolulu and San Francisco did Twain observe in chapter 4?

4. What did Twain write about the Hawaiian horse traders in chapter 6?

5. According to Twain's letter in chapter 2, how many months out of the year is the Pacific peaceful?

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