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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Mafatu resolved to do this year?
(a) Leave home.
(b) Tell his father how he feels.
(c) Shrug off his restraints and face his fear.
(d) Learn a new skill.

2. What does Mafatu hear some of the other boys calling his crafty work?
(a) Stupid.
(b) A waste of time.
(c) Woman's work.
(d) Boring.

3. Why does Mafatu decide to do this?
(a) In order to have a better relationship with his father.
(b) To be more helpful.
(c) In order to prove his worth as a fisherman.
(d) To get away from those who tease him.

4. What does the current do to their canoe?
(a) It takes hold of it.
(b) It pushes it towards the other canoes.
(c) It goes around it.
(d) It spins it around.

5. What does Mafatu have to endure?
(a) The ridicule from a step-mother.
(b) Endless mocking and ridicule.
(c) Blame for his mother's death.
(d) Sadness from the loss of his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mafatu do by the shoreline?

2. Against what do the fishermen warn her?

3. What is Mafatu resolved to do?

4. Who is the only person who has ever been nice to the outcast boy?

5. Why does Mafatu's mother take him out to the barrier reef?

(see the answer key)

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