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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What frightens Mafatu?
(a) The current.
(b) The dark water.
(c) The waves.
(d) To see the shark heading right for his dog.

2. What does he begin to think about killing?
(a) The pig.
(b) Sea urchins.
(c) Fish.
(d) The cannibals.

3. What does he use to pull himself up the slope?
(a) A ladder.
(b) The hanging vines.
(c) A tree.
(d) Roots.

4. What does Mafatu use to cauterize the wound on his leg?
(a) Aloe.
(b) Eucalyptus.
(c) Wild limes.
(d) Mud.

5. Why does Mafatu build up a large fire?
(a) He is cold.
(b) So others will see him.
(c) So that he can heat some stones.
(d) To burn his trash.

6. What leads toward the sea and to a large clearing?
(a) The trail.
(b) Foot prints.
(c) A stream.
(d) A trail of shells.

7. What is a moto tabu?
(a) A Forbidden Island.
(b) A prayer.
(c) A type of food.
(d) His favorite phrase.

8. What does he need to make a fishhook?
(a) Some bone.
(b) A rock.
(c) A shell.
(d) Metal.

9. What does Mafatu sees after he slides down the lava slide?
(a) Fresh water.
(b) A whale in the water.
(c) A manmade path leading through the jungle.
(d) A school of fish.

10. Why does Mafatu decide not to go to his lookout to check for the arrival of the eaters-of-men?
(a) He is too tired.
(b) It wasted too much of his time.
(c) He is afraid.
(d) It is scary.

11. How does he move toward the idol?
(a) He glides toward it.
(b) He runs toward it.
(c) He inches toward it.
(d) He circles it.

12. What does Mafatu spot as he and Uri head toward the reef on the raft?
(a) The dorsal fin of the shark poking through the water.
(b) Canoes.
(c) A man.
(d) Fish.

13. What can he use to make a raft?
(a) Rubber.
(b) Seaweed.
(c) A tree.
(d) Bamboo.

14. He would be able to return home with a boar's tooth necklace as proof of what?
(a) He likes to kill.
(b) He is strong.
(c) He killed a boar.
(d) His bravery and hunting prowess.

15. How does he fashion a fish trap?
(a) From a shell.
(b) From bamboo.
(c) From a log.
(d) From a piece of trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened when he had taken an item from a sacred place?

2. How does Mafatu fell a tree?

3. As he is looking at another island, what is he astonished to see?

4. What does Mafatu do to the shark?

5. What have been recently burned?

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