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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the people the French threaten?
(a) They refuse to take down the English flag.
(b) They are arrested by the French.
(c) They submit to the French.
(d) They respond with gunfire.

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

3. What prevents Tommo from joining Toby's plan?
(a) His lame leg.
(b) Mehevi's surveillance.
(c) His marriage to a Typee girl.
(d) His affection for Kory-Kory.

4. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?
(a) Native hunters.
(b) A palm tree.
(c) The water.
(d) Low bushes.

5. What do the narrator and Toby follow to the cliff?
(a) A footpath.
(b) A river.
(c) The sound of drums.
(d) A road.

6. What does the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?
(a) A wild boar.
(b) An inhabited valley.
(c) A natives hunting party.
(d) Sailors looking for him and Toby.

7. What do the narrator and Toby use to surpass the obstacle?
(a) Guns.
(b) Stealth.
(c) Knives.
(d) Ropes.

8. What is the narrator's name in "Typee"?
(a) Tommo.
(b) Melville.
(c) Toby.
(d) Kory-Kory.

9. What has the narrator heard about the Happars?
(a) That they will return them to the ship.
(b) That they are cannibals.
(c) That they are friendly.
(d) That they are a powerful tribe.

10. Whom does Mehevi bring to Toby and Tommo?
(a) A doctor.
(b) A warrior.
(c) A Happar warrior.
(d) Young girls.

11. What do the narrator and Toby plan to subsist on on the island?
(a) Food stolen from the marketplace.
(b) Food stolen from the ship.
(c) Food stolen from the natives.
(d) Wild fruit.

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

13. On what kind of ship is the narrator sailing?
(a) A merchant ship.
(b) A pleasure yacht.
(c) A warship.
(d) A whaling ship.

14. 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.

15. How high is the waterfall Toby and the narrator encounter?
(a) A hundred feet.
(b) Five hundred feet.
(c) Two hundred feet.
(d) A hundred fifty feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the natives bring to the Dolly?

2. How does Tommo get around the Typee village?

3. What do Toby and the narrator eat at the celebration?

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

5. What does Kory-Kory tell Toby and Tommo about the Happars?

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