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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Uri do for Mafatu?

2. What does Mafatu realize when he is shocked into full awareness by the cold water?

3. What does the current do to their canoe?

4. What is Mafatu amazed and relieved to discover?

5. Against what do the fishermen warn her?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what are the boys preparing?

2. How does Chapter 2 end?

3. What is Mafatu left wondering years later?

4. What happens that foreshadows a larger storm?

5. How does Mafatu feel when he sees land in the distance?

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

7. What does Mafatu think about his father?

8. What is Mafatu's most significant shame?

9. What does Mafatu realize after the storm has passed?

10. How is Mafatu treated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mafatu chooses to leave before the others wake.

Part 1) Why does he do this? What does he wonder about his tribe?

Part 2) What do you think were the reactions of the tribe? Use the text to support your response.

Part 3) How would your family react if they woke up one morning and you were gone? Compare and contrast their reaction to what you believe might be Mafatu's tribe's reaction.

Essay Topic 2

Mafatu takes only the bare essentials on his adventure.

Part 1) What does he take with him? How is this symbolic?

Part 2) How does the training he has received in his culture prepare him find what he needs using these basic supplies?

Part 3) Are you prepared by your culture to survive independently? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

While on the island, Mafatu becomes fearless.

Part 1) How? What does this fearlessness do to his sense of reason?

Part 2) What does this fearlessness keep him from doing? What does this foreshadow?

Part 3) Describe a time when you have felt fearless. How did it affect your decision-making? How did it affect your relationship with others?

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