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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 Mafatu spot at the sacred spot?
(a) Food.
(b) A knife.
(c) A spearhead.
(d) Clothing.

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

3. What is he able to make?
(a) A flying machine.
(b) Nets, knives, sharkline and fishhooks.
(c) A gun.
(d) A hammock.

4. Who helps Mafatu drag the bones down the beach?
(a) Uri.
(b) Kana.
(c) Kivi.
(d) Maui.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did he initially think that Maui had led him to this island?

2. How does Mafatu feel when the construction of a new canoe is complete?

3. What have been recently burned?

4. What does he need to make a fishhook?

5. What symbolizes the courage it took to approach the sacred idol and seize what he needed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mafatu act like a child?

2. Why does Mafatu become frightened?

3. What does Mafatu do when his canoe is complete?

4. What is his victory?

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

6. Why does Mafatu go after his knife?

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

8. What does Mafatu resolve to do each day?

9. What has Mafatu done by saving his dog?

10. What does the spearhead symbolize?

(see the answer keys)

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