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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why does Mafatu decide to do this?
(a) In order to prove his worth as a fisherman.
(b) To be more helpful.
(c) In order to have a better relationship with his father.
(d) To get away from those who tease him.
2. Who emerges from the water, sopping wet?
(a) Uri.
(b) Kivi.
(c) Kana.
(d) His father.
3. From what does Mafatu drink?
(a) One of the green drinking nuts.
(b) A coconut.
(c) A canteen.
(d) The sea.
4. What is Mafatu afraid will disappear, if he takes his eyes off of it?
(a) His father's canoe.
(b) Uri's body.
(c) The wedge of land rising out of the sea.
(d) Kivi.
5. From what is Mafatu getting no relief?
(a) Uri's whining.
(b) His hunger.
(c) His fear.
(d) The blistering sun and thirst.
6. How does Mafatu feel about the sea?
(a) Excited.
(b) Fearless.
(c) Unsure.
(d) Fear.
7. Soon, what comes?
(a) Another storm.
(b) Warriors.
(c) Another night.
(d) His father.
8. Where has a current formed?
(a) On the other side of the reef.
(b) By the shoulder of the reef passage.
(c) By the other canoes.
(d) Around her canoe.
9. Who is the only person who has ever been nice to the outcast boy?
(a) His mother.
(b) Kana.
(c) His goddess.
(d) His father.
10. Who does Mafatu begin to follow?
(a) Kivi.
(b) Uri.
(c) Kana.
(d) His father.
11. Who treats Mafatu poorly?
(a) His step-mother.
(b) His teachers.
(c) His father and the other children in the village.
(d) The other children.
12. What does Kivi do after flying overhead?
(a) Flies home.
(b) Turns and flies south, leading the way.
(c) Calls to Mafatu.
(d) Lands on the canoe.
13. What is Mafatu amazed and relieved to discover?
(a) The hail lasted only a moment.
(b) The storm was not very strong.
(c) No whales were around him.
(d) He has survived.
14. What is it time for the boys to do?
(a) Prepare for fishing.
(b) Say a prayer.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Eat a meal.
15. What does the boy do when he flings himself onto the floor of the canoe?
(a) He cuts his arm.
(b) He hugs Uri.
(c) He screams.
(d) He buries his face in his arms, crying.
Short Answer Questions
1. What happens as the current gets quicker?
2. What happens to the tiny canoe?
3. Why does Mafatu's mother take him out to the barrier reef?
4. What has Mafatu resolved to do this year?
5. What does Mafatu's mother decide to do?
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