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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, and 8, pp. 58-82.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and Toby find in their pockets when they have reached the mountain?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Soggy biscuits.
(c) Fire ants.
(d) Salted beef.

2. How does the narrator describe Toby?
(a) As short and stout.
(b) As quick and bird-like.
(c) As hearty and robust.
(d) As small and limber.

3. What do the French threaten after Nukuheva?
(a) A native church.
(b) A group of runaways.
(c) An English missionary's house.
(d) An American merchant settlement.

4. What happens to the narrator's leg?
(a) It is caught in some rocks.
(b) He cuts it badly.
(c) It is struck by a native's hunting dart.
(d) It swells up.

5. Where do the sailors set up their hut?
(a) At the mountaintop.
(b) On the beach.
(c) At the bottom of a cliff.
(d) With the Happars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?

2. Where does the captain tell the sailors to stay near?

3. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?

4. How long does the narrator expect the whaling voyage could last if he had stayed aboard?

5. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?

(see the answer key)

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