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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 The Island.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About what is Mafatu unsure?
(a) Which island he is on.
(b) Where his friends have gone.
(c) What food is safe to eat.
(d) How to hunt.

2. Against what do the fishermen warn her?
(a) Fishing at night.
(b) Catching sea urchins.
(c) Fishing too close to the reef.
(d) Staying out in the water.

3. The next day shows what?
(a) Fish to catch.
(b) More signs of stormy weather.
(c) An island nearby.
(d) No signs of the previous night's storm.

4. What is Mafatu resolved to do?
(a) Continue doing what he loves.
(b) Run away.
(c) Never to return to Hikueru unless he is successful in his pursuit.
(d) Tell the boys what he thinks of their work.

5. What would cause Mafatu to lose his spear or line?
(a) The rough seas.
(b) A large fish.
(c) Bad memories would take over his hands.
(d) Other children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes Mafatu at midnight?

2. What does the current do to their canoe?

3. How are they end up in the churning sea?

4. What is Mafatu afraid will disappear, if he takes his eyes off of it?

5. What does Mafatu's mother finally decide to do?

(see the answer key)

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