Quiz Oceania Pacific Islands

The First Fleet that sailed to Australia held more prisoners than freemen.

• True

• False

Spanish explorers such as Mendaña treated the islanders with kindness on all occasions.

• True

• False

The Hawaiians gave up their religion after the missionaries arrived.

• True

• False

The kapus particularly restricted men.

• True

• False

Each member of the Maka‘aina had a specific job that he learned from childhood.

• True

• False

Hawaii had the largest Protestant church on the earth at one time in the 1800s.

• True

• False

Indigenous Australians resisted the British and killed many settlers.

• True

• False

The people who first settled on the Pacific islands possessed exceptional navigation skills.

• True

• False

The most powerful Polynesians were the Ali‘i.

• True

• False

Captain Cook encouraged contact between his crew and the natives.

• True

• False