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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the Ti?
(a) The stream where Tommo washes.
(b) The center of the Typee village.
(c) A building where the Typees meet.
(d) Grounds where rituals are performed.

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

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

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

6. What does Mehevi want information about from Toby and Tommo?
(a) America's strength relative to France.
(b) American women.
(c) The Happar villages.
(d) The French invasion force.

7. What do Toby and the narrator know about the Typees?
(a) They are supposed to be indolent.
(b) They are supposed to be friendly.
(c) They are supposed to be cruel.
(d) They are supposed to be industrious.

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

9. How do the Typees respond to news of a boat in their bay?
(a) They hide in the bush.
(b) They reconnoiter the bay.
(c) They arm themselves.
(d) They gather goods to trade.

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

11. Where did the French Admiral sail for after Nukuheva?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Australia.
(c) Tahiti.
(d) Borneo.

12. When Toby and the narrator see a native boy and girl, what are the native children carrying?
(a) Breadfruit.
(b) A basket filled with seashells.
(c) Bananas.
(d) An infant.

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

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

15. What name do the natives give Tom?
(a) Tommo.
(b) Toby.
(c) Typee.
(d) Mehevi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the French put ashore at the beginning of Chapter 3?

2. Describe the ravine the sailors follow.

3. What did the French Admiral demand when he reached his next destination after Nukuheva?

4. Describe the warrior's tattoos.

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

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