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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did it take the steamer to reach Hawaii?
(a) Just under two weeks.
(b) Just over two weeks.
(c) Just over ten days.
(d) Just under ten days.

2. Which description did Twain use for the islands that the men at the Saturday market were from?
(a) The windy isles.
(b) The rainy isles.
(c) The cloudy isles.
(d) The sunny isles.

3. What was the risk of a person bringing their own liquor from America to Hawaii?
(a) Exile.
(b) Confiscation, imprisonment, and exile.
(c) Confiscation.
(d) Imprisonment.

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

5. Who did Twain give credit for taming the market?
(a) The government, but not the church.
(b) Neither the church nor the government.
(c) The church, but not the government.
(d) The church and government.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Twain's opinion, what would have happened to Honolulu without whaling?

2. Where was the fauna that Twain mentioned in chapter 11?

3. What confounded Twain about the sailors in chapter 2?

4. What publication did Twain write his Letters from Hawaii for?

5. How did Twain respond to Mr. Brown's criticism of his omission of Hawaii's negative aspects?

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