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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What course of action does Toby urge for himself and Tommo?
(a) Marry Typee girls.
(b) Wage battle, with the Typees, against the Happars.
(c) Escape.
(d) Return to the ships.

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

3. What do Fayaway and Tinor wear as decorations?
(a) Wooden headdresses.
(b) Fish tails.
(c) Bone piercings.
(d) Flower necklaces.

4. What does the narrator use when he descends the waterfall?
(a) Hanging vines.
(b) A walking stick.
(c) Tree bark for sandals.
(d) Toby's help.

5. Under what condition will Kory-Kory allow Toby to go to the shore to meet the boat?
(a) He allows himself to be tied to Kory-Kory.
(b) Tommo stays behind.
(c) He leaves his possessions.
(d) He promises not to run off.

6. Who causes a scene when they arrive on the narrator's ship?
(a) Ambassadors from Nukuheva.
(b) Mutinied sailors.
(c) The captain of a French ship.
(d) The king and queen of Nukuheva.

7. How does Toby plan to help Tommo?
(a) By freeing Tommo from Kory-Kory.
(b) By ransoming Tommo from Mehevi.
(c) By bringing help from the French ships.
(d) By finding Tommo a wife.

8. What do the French want to demonstrate to the natives at Nukuheva?
(a) Their power.
(b) Their compassion.
(c) Their desire to trade.
(d) Their wealth.

9. Where does the narrator plan to go when he deserts his ship?
(a) To Australia.
(b) To Tahiti.
(c) To the harbor on the other side of the island.
(d) To the mountains.

10. Who comes to see Toby and Tommo after they wake up?
(a) Groups of female natives.
(b) Groups of children.
(c) Groups of Happars.
(d) Groups of male natives.

11. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1822.

12. Who are the Typees?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Friends of the Happars.
(c) Cannibals.
(d) Friends of the Nukuheva.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?

2. What do Toby and the narrator see when they reach the valley at the bottom of the second waterfall?

3. What are the ravine's sides covered with, that make it dangerous going down and up?

4. When do the narrator and Toby decide to desert?

5. What prevents Tommo from joining Toby's plan?

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