The Whale Rider - Autumn

What is the name of the metting house?

• Te Kani

• Paikea

• Kahutia Te Rangi

• Te Whironui

What kind of testing had been conducted in the Tuamotu Archipelago?

Why is this testing in the deep trench so ironic?

• It is damaging the wildlife

• It does not bring security

• It harms the tester

• It was once the womb of the world

What device:

Suddenly, the sea trench seemed to puslate and crackle with a lighswram of luminescence.

• anaphora

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

What device:

Sparkling like a galaxy was a net of radioactive death.

• anaphora

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

What device:

the ancient whale could only despair that the place of life, and the Gods, had now become a place of death.

• anaphora

• list

• juxtaposition

• oxymoron

Where does Rawiri go when Kahu is four?

• America

• Austria

• Australia

• Antartica

Whilst in Australia, Rawiri meets several cousins who have changed dramatically. He concludes that they hide their way of life as a way of maintaining _________ for their life back in Whangara.

• nostalgia

• respect

• romance

• memory

Rawiri describes the allure of his life in Sydney as 'the hedonistic life of the lotus eater.' - 'Lotus eater' is an allusion to what?

• ancient Polynesian mythology

• ancient Norse mytholody

• ancient Egyptian mythology

• ancient Greek mythology

What news does Rawiri receive about Porourangi?

• He is getting married again.

• He is sick.

• He is going to bring Kahu home permanently

• He is getting a divorce