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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9, and 10, 83-108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the captain tell the sailors to stay near?
(a) The marketplace.
(b) The harbor.
(c) The French military station.
(d) The beach.

2. How big is the island of Nukuheva?
(a) 20 miles by 20 miles.
(b) 5 miles by 2 miles.
(c) 2 miles by 1 mile.
(d) 12 miles by 8 miles.

3. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?
(a) The savages will hunt him and sell him into slavery.
(b) The captain will bribe the natives to search for him.
(c) The French will try to hunt him down.
(d) The renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.

4. What are the ravine's sides covered with, that make it dangerous going down and up?
(a) Totems.
(b) Natives on the lookout.
(c) Sailors from their ship.
(d) Reeds.

5. How do Toby and the narrator descend the second waterfall?
(a) They jump into the water.
(b) By a path.
(c) They climb down the cliff.
(d) By hanging vines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?

2. How much experience of white men have the natives had?

3. Toward what land does the ship steer?

4. What happens to the narrator's leg?

5. What do Toby and the narrator know about the Typees?

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