True or False Quiz
- 1. Rapa Nui is located in the Southeast Pacific.
- 2.Rapa Nui is a volcanic island .
- 3.Rapa Nui belongs to the South American country of Argentina.
- 4.The whole island is registered as a Rapa Nui National Park in 1995.It is a World Heritages of Natural criteria.
- 5.Dutch mariner Thor Heyerdahl named the island "Easter Island",because he discovered it on Easter Day.
- 6. Rapa Nui is most famous for enormous stone figures known as moai.
- 7. Some people say that the moais represent old chiefs,the original leaders of the island who were said to have had great spiritual powers.Others say that the they represent the gods.
- 8. The moais themselves are said to have great spiritual powers, and people are afraid to approach the moais day and night.
- 9.While no one knows for sure,it is believed that the early settlers(Long Ears) came from Polynesia and others(Short Ears) came later from the west.
- 10.It is said that some of the statues were destroyed because of fighting between the Long Ears and the Short Ears.