View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?
(a) The ship was badly damaged in a storm.
(b) The last chicken was killed which the captain ate.
(c) The sailors mutinied.
(d) The ship sprung a leak.

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

5. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Shy.
(d) Easy-going.

6. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?
(a) That there are no fruit trees.
(b) That the natives are friendly.
(c) That they are being followed.
(d) That the natives are hostile.

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

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

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

10. Where do the Typees live?
(a) In a valley neighboring the Happars.
(b) With the Nukuheva.
(c) On an island near Nukuheva.
(d) In the French fort at Nukuheva.

11. When do the narrator and Toby decide to desert?
(a) During shore leave.
(b) In the middle of the night.
(c) After the second watch.
(d) During the fight with the French.

12. Who are the Happars?
(a) Friends of the English.
(b) Friends of the Typees.
(c) Friends of the Americans.
(d) Friends of the Nukuheva.

13. How much experience of white men have the natives had?
(a) They have never observed them closely before.
(b) They have traded with them for years.
(c) They have taken white men among them before.
(d) They have traveled with white men.

14. How does Toby end up unconscious?
(a) He eats something poisonous.
(b) He falls from a waterfall.
(c) He is hit by a Happar spear.
(d) He is shot by a French soldier.

15. How do the girls in the village treat Tommo?
(a) They wash him in the stream twice a day.
(b) They tease him and run away when he tries to talk with them.
(c) They shun him.
(d) They rub him with oils after Kory-Kory bathes him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the narrator and Toby arrive before sundown?

2. How does Toby plan to help Tommo?

3. Why does the narrator run away from the Dolly?

4. Who are Toby and Tommo surrounded by when they wake up in the Typee village?

5. What does Tommo think is his and Toby's only chance for escape?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 547 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample