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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 does he want from his town and his father?
(a) A job.
(b) To find him.
(c) To be left alone.
(d) Respect.

2. What happens when a large wave tips the raft at a severe angle?
(a) Mafatu falls in the water.
(b) Kivi falls in the water.
(c) The fish traps fall in the water.
(d) Uri falls into the water.

3. What has always scared him away when he went out to the reef to set his traps?
(a) The current.
(b) The hammerhead shark.
(c) The murky water.
(d) The fish.

4. What has rooted Mafatu to the ground?
(a) A branch.
(b) Fear.
(c) Uri's growl.
(d) Quick sand.

5. What startles Mafatu?
(a) A drumming sound.
(b) A wild boar crashing through the bushes.
(c) Uri's barking.
(d) Kivi's call.

Short Answer Questions

1. He would be able to return home with a boar's tooth necklace as proof of what?

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

3. What does he think about the skills he had acquired back home?

4. How does Mafatu fell a tree?

5. What does he soon do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What wakes him the next morning?

2. What happens when Mafatu and Uri are on the raft?

3. Why does Mafatu decide not to go to his lookout?

4. How does Mafatu go about making a raft? Why is the raft important?

5. What does Mafatu spot at the sacred platform? Why does he need it?

6. What will happen if he could kill the pig?

7. What does Mafatu resolve to do each day?

8. What has Mafatu done by saving his dog?

9. How does Mafatu react when the water becomes turbulent? Why does he react this way?

10. How does Mafatu push away thoughts of home and his father?

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