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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mafatu discover lying on the beach?
(a) A raft.
(b) A man.
(c) The skeleton of a whale.
(d) A shark.

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

3. How does Mafatu fell a tree?
(a) By burning the base of the tree.
(b) By tying a rope to it and pulling on it.
(c) By climbing up it and leaning to the side.
(d) With an axe.

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

5. The next day, what does Mafatu begin to rebuild?
(a) His shelter.
(b) His friendships.
(c) His life.
(d) His canoe.

6. What symbolizes the courage it took to approach the sacred idol and seize what he needed?
(a) The banana tree.
(b) The clearing.
(c) The vines.
(d) The spearhead.

7. What does he think about the skills he had acquired back home?
(a) They are a waste.
(b) They need to be improved.
(c) They help a little.
(d) They are proving useful now.

8. When does the tree fall to the ground?
(a) When the fire has burned through the trunk.
(b) When it yields to Mafatu pulling on the rope.
(c) When a strong wind blows.
(d) When it yields to his weight.

9. How does Mafatu feel about the eaten fish?
(a) Slightly irritated.
(b) Glad that Uri had finally eaten.
(c) Upset with Kivi.
(d) Furious at his hours of work gone down the drain.

10. What does he soon do?
(a) Finds fresh water.
(b) Reaches the summit of the hill.
(c) Climb to the top of a tree.
(d) Climb to the top of the ladder.

11. Where are fish hooks made from bone, coconut-shell bowls, an extra clothing garment made waterproof for wet weather, and a coil of sennit found?
(a) On the beach.
(b) Inside a bag.
(c) In a hollow tree.
(d) Inside the house.

12. How does Mafatu feel when the construction of a new canoe is complete?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Sad.
(c) Excited to drop the craft in the water.
(d) Worn out.

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

14. What does Mafatu do to the shark?
(a) He taunts him.
(b) He stabs him in the belly.
(c) He pushes on his gills.
(d) He grabs him.

15. He has the skill and resources to build a net but cannot get out to the "distant reef" to cast the net without his canoe. What does this do to him?
(a) It makes him excited about the challenge.
(b) It worries him.
(c) It irritates him.
(d) It further complicates the situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does he feel as he heads out to the reef?

2. He hated doing these tasks back in Hikueru. How does he feel now?

3. What does Mafatu wake up the next morning and remember?

4. What does he use to pull himself up the slope?

5. What would he never again be called?

(see the answer keys)

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