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18. WHY DOES THE STUDENT GO TO SEE THE PROFESSOR? 
 
 
19. HOW DID THE STUDENT MOST LIKELY PREPARE FOR THE EXAM?
20. WHAT PROBLEM DID THE STUDENT HAVE WITH THE QUESTION 
ABOUT STEPS IN THE PROCESS? 
 
 
21. WHAT PROBLEM DID THE STUDENT HAVE WITH THE QUESTION 
ABOUT THEORIES? 
22. WHICH EXAM QUESTION WOULD THIS PROFESSOR MOST LIKELY 
USE? 
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Questions 23 through 28. 
Listen to a lecture in an American history class. 
(Professor) 
Today, we’re going to talk about the last monarch to rule land that today 
makes up part of the United States. This last monarch was a woman, 
and her name was Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. 
To understand Queen Liliuokalani’s situation, I’m going to give you some 
background about the history of Hawaii before I discuss the Queen 
specifically. And, I’m going to be talking about two people today in 
addition to Queen Liliuokalani: These two people are Captain James 
Cook and King Kamehameha. The reason I’m going to talk about these 
two people is, of course, that they’ll help you to understand Queen 
Liliuokalani and the situation in which she found herself. 
So, uh first of all, let’s talk about the British explorer, Captain James 
Cook. You may be familiar with Captain Cook, who named and also left 
his 
name on much of the Pacific Ocean area. Captain Cook arrived in the 
Hawaiian Islands in 1778 and gave the islands the name Sandwich 
Islands in honor of a British nobleman, the Earl of Sandwich. When 
Captain Cook arrived near the end of the eighteenth century, the islands 
were not a single unified society. Um instead, various islands in the chain 
were under the control of different native kings. 
A second person we’re going to look at is King Kamehameha. 
Kamehameha spent almost 30 years uniting the Hawaiian Islands under 
one ruler, and by 1810, only a few decades after Captain Cook’s arrival, 
all of the islands were united under his rule. King Kamehameha was the 
first to reign over all of the islands together and he ruled over them until 
he died in 1819. A number of other kings followed Kamehameha as the 
islands’ rulers during the nineteenth century. 
Um now we can discuss Queen Liliuokalani, the last monarch of Hawaii. 
Liliuokalani became queen after her brother, King Kalakaua, died in 
1891. Liliuokalani was the first and only female monarch to rule the 

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Hawaiian Islands, and she was the final one. Liliuokalani became queen 
during a period when a large percentage of the population believed that 
it…it was better to have a democratic government than a monarchy, but 
Liliuokalani refused to consider ending the monarchy and she also 
refused to consider limiting the power of the monarchy or initiating a 
democratic government. In 1893, two years after she became queen, she 
imposed a constitution granting complete power to the monarch and it 
was at that point, she was removed from the monarchy. Over the next 
few years, there were a number of scenarios to try to reinstitute the 
monarchy. But by 1898, Liliuokalani had renounced her claim to the royal 
throne of Hawaii. She received a pension from the government and 
returned to her royal estates, where she lived out her life for the next 20 
years with the title of queen but without the authority. Thus she became 
the last monarch of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Um I know that the Hawaiian names can be a bit difficult to remember, 
but I hope you got the important main points: that it was King 
Kamehameha who unified all the Hawaiian Islands under one monarch 
and it was Queen Liliuokalani who was the final monarch of those 
Islands. Well that’s all for today.