Voyages

Which island are they on in paragraph A?

• Hawaii

• Saint Lucia

• Bora Bora

• Tobago

How long was the canoe race?

• 100 kilometers

• 130 kilometers

• 150 kilometers

• 175 kilometers

According to the text, the ancestors’ colonization of nearly every island in the South Pacific is comparable to:

• Humans going to the moon

• Humans creating planes for the first time

• Humans discovering the black hole in space

• Humans traveling around the ocean without any technology or GPS.

During which time period did the Lapita people colonize the islands?

• From about 500 to 1200 B.C

• From about 600 to 1300 B.C

• From about 1100 to 1900 B.C

• From about 1300 to 800 B.C

Which one of the following islands was NOT colonized by the Lapita people?

• Hawaii

• Fiji

• Samoa

• New Caledonia

How long after the Lapita people stopped exploring did the Polynesians begin their explorations?

• 300 years

• 500 years

• 800 years

• 1000 years

According to the text, the Polynesians were:

• ancestors of the Lapita people

• descendants of the Lapita people

• an indigenous tribe that killed the Lapita people

• an African tribe which arrived to Hawaii by canoe

Which one of the following was NOT a Polynesian colony?

• Cook Islands

• Easter Island

• Falkland Islands

• Hawaii

According to paragraph D, what hasn’t anyone been able to find?

• A skull of a Polynesian person

• An undamaged canoe belonging to the Lapita people

• Weapons used by the Lapita and Polynesian people

• Intact bones belonging to the early Polynesian people

True or False: the Lapita people traveled north in their expansion into the Pacific.

• True – the trade winds took them north

• False – they traveled eastward against the trade winds