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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mafatu amazed and relieved to discover?
(a) The storm was not very strong.
(b) He has survived.
(c) The hail lasted only a moment.
(d) No whales were around him.

2. What does Mafatu do by the shoreline?
(a) He prays to the goddess to help him.
(b) He fashions spears, nets, and sharkline for the other young boys to use.
(c) He cries.
(d) He sits and watches the other men.

3. Who does Mafatu begin to follow?
(a) Kana.
(b) Uri.
(c) Kivi.
(d) His father.

4. Why does Mafatu forget about being hungry and thirsty?
(a) He sees his goddess.
(b) Uri has fallen in the water.
(c) The sight of land spurring him onward.
(d) His father's canoe is behind him.

5. What does the sky cast upon the tiny canoe?
(a) Rain.
(b) Hail.
(c) Thunder and lightning.
(d) A shadow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who treats Mafatu poorly?

2. What happens to the tiny canoe?

3. The situation becomes very reminiscent of what?

4. Why does Mafatu decide to do this?

5. What wakes Mafatu at midnight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mafatu struggle through the day?

2. What has resulted because of Mafatu's fear?

3. How does Chapter 2 end?

4. What role does Kivi play in Mafatu's plans?

5. What happens after Mafatu is thrown from the canoe?

6. What does Mafatu resolve to do this year?

7. What is Mafatu's most significant shame?

8. What happens after the storm? To what does Mafatu awaken?

9. What does Mafatu think about his father?

10. What happens during the first major storm?

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