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TE WHIWHI, KATU - and Te Wai Pounamu

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1. Te Whiwhi and Katu belonged to the Ngāti Toa – from Kawhia. In what area did the Ngāti Toa eventually settle? (P1)

a) Matamata

b) Waitangi

c) Ōtaki

d) Otorohanga

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2. Te Hekenga means (P1)

a) The Great Migration

b) The Coastal Track

c) The Warrior People

d) The Mountainous Land

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3. “Kai” means (P1)

a) Sea

b) Walk

c) Food

d) Bird

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4. How old is Katu believed to have been when he first went to war? (P2)

a) 10 years old

b) 12 years old

c) 14 years old

d) 16 years old

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5. What was Te Rauparaha most interested in trading for his pigs and potatoes with the whalers and sealers arriving on their land? (P3)

a) Money

b) Muskets

c) Blankets

d) Tobacco

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6. Te Rauparaha and his warriors would travel across Cook Strait in their waka. Why did they want to travel across this dangerous stretch of water? (P4)

a) To trade with the Māori there

b) To get a good supply of pounamu

c) To war against the people there

d) To keep his warriors fit and well exercised

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7. What made Te Rauparaha able to kill so many in the South Island? (P4)

a) The South Island Māori were much younger and inexperienced in war

b) His men were bigger and stronger than the South Island Māori

c) The South Island Māori were very ill and unable to fight

d) Te Rauparaha had muskets and the South Island Māori didn’t

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8. What does "Rangatira" mean in English? (P6)

a) A young boy

b) A child

c) An old woman

d) A chief

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9. Why did the tribe in the far north set their slave named Ripahau free? (P7)

a) The fact that they had plenty of food and supplies and didn’t need captives

b) The fact that they didn’t have enough food and couldn’t feed so many captives

c) They were afraid they would be attacked if they did not set their captives free

d) The message of peace from the missionaries

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10. What book did Ripahau have that he used to teach Katu and Te Whiwhi to read and write? (P8)

a) A telephone book

b) A Māori dictionary

c) A part of the Bible

d) None of the above

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11. What does Te Paipera Tapu mean? (P10)

a) The Sacred Bible

b) The Sacred Land

c) The Sacred People

d) The Sacred Water

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12. How did Katu and Te Whiwhi feel about the message that was in the book? (P9-10)

a) They were bored by it and couldn’t wait until the lessons were over

b) They loved it and couldn’t stop reading it, even through the night

c) They didn’t enjoy it, and read it only because they had to

d) They didn’t want to read it, but they did to please Te Rauparaha

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13. After Ripahau left, Katu and Te Whiwhi wanted to have a missionary of their own. What did they do to get one? (P11)

a) They sent a letter on a sailing ship to ask for one

b) They prayed for one, but didn’t actually do anything

c) They made the trip up to Northland themselves and asked for one

d) They sent a messenger to go to Northland to ask for one

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14. When Octavius Hadfield arrived in Kāpiti with Henry Williams, what did they find? (P12)

a) A very large chapel had already been built

b) The people were thrilled, and danced with excitement that he had come

c) The people were already teaching each other what they had learned from Ripahau

d) All of the above

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15. Williams and Hadfield soon learned that there was tension in the air between the Ngāti Toa and a neighbouring iwi, who they had been fighting with for many years. What did they decide to do? (P13)

a) They decided to follow their own teachings to love their enemies and put away their anger

b) They brought them gifts of potatoes

c) Along with the iwi they both chose the way of peace

d) All of the above

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16. What was Te Rauparaha’s reaction when Katu and Te Whiwhi told him they wanted to repeat this peace process with Ngai Tahu in the South Island? (P16)

a) He was very happy about it

b) He was very angry about it

c) He wanted to go too

d) He wanted to bring his whole iwi down to the South Island

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17. What were Katu and Te Whiwhi thinking when they headed to the South Island to try to make peace with them? (P17)

a) They knew it was quite likely that they might be killed

b) They felt confident that the Ngai Tahu would forgive them

c) They decided not to go because it was too dangerous

d) They wished they hadn’t gone

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18. How did the Ngai Tahu chief respond when Katu and Te Whiwhi arrived? (P18-19)

a) The chief was very fearful of them

b) The chief was prepared to listen to what they had to say to his people as they had heard about the message from the Bible too

c) When the chief saw that they were truly sorry, a wave of relief swept over him and his iwi

d) All of the above

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19. What happened after Katu and Te Whiwhi made peace with that first iwi? (P19)

a) They went home, happy peace had been made with their enemy

b) They invited their friends to come and join them for a big hui

c) They continued to travel throughout the South Island to spread the same teachings to other Māori

d) They were glad the fighting was over and settled in the South Island

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20. What impact did the message brought by Ripahau have on iwi in both the Kāpiti and the South Island in those times? (P20)

a) Te Rauparaha’s raids ended

b) Many changes came to tribes including an end to fighting

c) It was a time of great promise

d) All of the above

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