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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 does Rachel think of the moving pictures?

2. Who is Dorothy?

3. Why does the queen surrender?

4. How does Rachel feel about her Uncle Pono?

5. What does Mother Marianne ask Rachel when she returns from the party in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mother Marianne react when she sees the girls returning from the party in Chapter 10?

2. What political event takes place on the day after Pono departs for Moloka'i?

3. How is Rachel's family affected after she is discovered to have leprosy?

4. Why does Sister Catherine slap Rachel in Chapter 7?

5. Why are lepers quarantined on Moloka'i?

6. How does Rachel react to being at Kalihi?

7. Where is Rachel told she will live on Moloka'i? Why doesn't Mother Marianne think Rachel should live with her uncle?

8. What does Rachel decide to do for Haleola's funeral?

9. Why does Rachel decide to run away in Chapter 8?

10. What is a ho'oponopono, and what does Rachel's father reveal at it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of family in the novel "Moloka'i." Who are the members of Rachel's family? Is family important to Rachel? How does Rachel's family affect her decisions and actions? Describe Rachel's relationship with her father and daughter.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the relationship between Rachel and Kenji. What do they feel for one another? How does their relationship evolve as the novel progresses? How does Kenji die, and how does his death impact Rachel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss conflict in "Moloka'i." Who is in conflict with whom? What events or situations cause these conflicts? Are the major conflicts resolved? If so, how?

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