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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 name her baby?

2. What does Rachel see in the sky in Chapter 14?

3. How many years is Crossen sentenced to prison?

4. Where does Rachel's daughter live?

5. Where does Rachel stay when she arrives in Honolulu?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ruth want to know when Rachel first contacts her? How does Ruth react to Rachel's explanation?

2. After gaining access to Ruth's adoption papers, what does Rachel find out about Ruth's adoptive family?

3. At the end of the novel, what are the residents of Kalaupapa worried about?

4. How does Crossen think he got leprosy? Who is he full of hate for as a result?

5. What brings some new residents to Kalaupapa in Chapter 13? What do Rachel and Jake find they have a shared interest in?

6. Why do the patients at the Leprosy Investigation Station leave one by one?

7. What does Rachel think when she sees Honolulu for the first time in more than fifty years?

8. What does Rachel do every year in memory of her daughter?

9. In Chapter 18, what does Rachel fear about being released from the settlement?

10. In what year does the Endnote take place? Why have Ruth and her daughter travelled to Kalaupapa?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the protagonist of the novel, Rachel Kalama. What are Rachel's defining character traits? Whom is she close to in the novel? What happens to Rachel throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Brennert's use of symbolism in the novel "Moloka'i. " What are some examples of symbolism in the novel? What do these symbols represent? How do the examples of symbolism relate to the theme of death and isolation?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of death in the novel " Moloka'i." How does Brennert illustrate the death motif throughout the novel? What do the characters think of death? How do the characters, particularly Rachel, react to the deaths?

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