MCQ - Wiremu Tamihana Tarapīpipi

WIREMU TAMIHANA TARAPIPIPI – the King Maker

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1. What was Tarapīpipi told to do by his father? (P2)

a) To stop listening to the missionaries, to make war on their enemies, and to always be a friend of the Pākehā

b) To listen to the missionaries, but still make war with their enemies, and to always be a friend of the Pākehā

c) To ignore the missionaries, make war with their enemies, and protect the people from the Pākehā

d) To listen to the missionaries, make peace with their enemies, but protect the people from the Pākehā

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2. Tarapīpipi told his father he was only going to follow one of those instructions. Which was it? (P2)

a) To ignore the missionaries

b) To make war with their enemies

c) To always be a friend to the Pākehā

d) To become the leader of his iwi

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3. When Tarapīpipi became chief why were some of his people grumbling about him? (P3)

a) He wouldn’t let them follow their old customs

b) He made them build a new pā

c) He would only let people who followed Christian teachings, live at the new pā

d) He kept refusing to go to war

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4. How many people attended Tarapīpipi’s large peace-making meeting, where hundreds of pigs and thousands of eels were provided for food? (P5)

a) 500

b) 1500

c) 2500

d) 5000

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5. What did Tarapīpipi use to line the streets at his new pā, which was built after the old one was destroyed by fire? (P7)

a) Flax leaves woven together

b) Stones from a nearby river

c) Wood

d) Pumice

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6. Who was invited to participate in the school Tarapīpipi established? (P8)

a) Only the young boys and girls

b) Only the young boys and girls

c) Only the tattooed old chiefs — as they could teach others

d) People of all ages

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7. When did Tamihana Te Rauparaha, known as Katu, meet the Pakeha Queen? (P9)

a) When he was on a trip to England

b) When she visited his marae

c) When he was working on a sailing ship

d) When he visited Australia

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8. What problems were weighing heavily on the shoulders of Tarapīpipi and others? (P10)

a) More and more Pākehā were arriving and finding cunning ways to get Māori land

b) Some Māori were selling land without realising what that would mean

c) Pākehā were putting pressure on Māori to sell their land

d) All of the above

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9. When Tarapīpipi took a letter on behalf of a gathering of chiefs to the Governor, how long did he wait in the waiting room before he realised the Governor was not going to meet with him? (P12)

a) 4 hours

b) One day

c) Two days

d) Five days

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10. What was the name of the first Maori King appointed? (P13)

a) Tamihana Te Rauparaha

b) Matene Te Whiwhi

c) Pōtatau Te Wherowhero

d) Wiremu Tamihana Tarapīpipi

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11. How did Tarapīpipi understand the relationship of the Māori King and the Queen of England? (P13)

a) They were of equal Governmental power under the law of God and man

b) The Māori King had an important role but wasn’t intended as a challenge to the authority of the Queen

c) The Māori King was the equal of the NZ Governor, and the Queen was not relevant

d) The Māori King replaced the Queen’s authority over them

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12. Why weren’t Pākehā happy about the establishment of the Māori King? (P14)

a) They didn’t want the Māori voice to be heard

b) They didn’t want Māori to be able to protect their lands

c) They saw it as an act of disobedience and defiance against the Queen

d) They didn’t think the Māori King and the Queen would get on well together

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13. When did the British Crown officially recognise the Māori Flag? (P15)

a) At the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840

b) At the signing of The Declaration of Independence in 1835

c) In 1834

d) In 1863

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14. Why were Māori unhappy about the road being built into the Waikato? (P17)

a) The were scared their trade opportunities would be taken

b) They were sure it would be used by soldiers to bring in troops to drive Māori out

c) The wanted to build the road themselves

d) They believed that using rivers was a better way to travel

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15. When Māori started fighting to stop the building of the road, what did Tarapīpipi do? (P17)

a) He encouraged his men to join them

b) He joined them himself

c) He refused to engage in war because he believed in following the way of peace

d) He joined forces with the British to stop the fighting

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16. What caused Tarapīpipi to give up on peaceful resistance, and to join the fighting? (P18)

a) Their women and children were now being shot and burnt to death while hiding

b) Their crops had been destroyed

c) He was losing his land

d) A relative of his was killed

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17. Why did Tarapipipi agree to Governor Grey’s request for him to meet with General Carey? (P19)

a) Tarapīpipi wanted to surrender before more of his people were killed

b) He wanted to have peaceful talks, as he saw the problems wouldn’t be solved with more fighting

c) He realised they were wrong to have fought and wanted to apologise

d) He thought General Carey was going to give him his land back

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18. How did the General and other Pākehā see Tarapīpipi’s laying down of his taiaha? (P21)

a) He thought it was a challenge, inviting the General to war

b) He thought it was a generous gift to thank the General for meeting

c) He thought it was act of surrender

d) He thought it was an act of good-faith, asking for an opportunity to talk rather than fight

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19. How did the Government act toward Māori who had fought against them? (P22)

a) They forgave them

b) They put them in prison

c) They took their land

d) They executed them

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20. Having lost his lands, how did Tarapīpipi end his days? (P22)

a) Telling his people to hold onto their anger, and to fight their enemies

b) Telling his men to grow more vegetables, to feed people

c) Writing letters of protest to the government

d) Telling his people to obey ways of God and of men

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