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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tommo figure out about Marnoo?
(a) That he has been to France.
(b) That he was once exiled from the Typees.
(c) That he was raised by the Happars.
(d) That he is taboo.

2. What animals is Tommo surprised to find in Typee?
(a) Pigs and horses.
(b) A donkey.
(c) Dogs and a cat.
(d) Chickens.

3. What does Marnoo know about Toby's fate?
(a) He has no idea.
(b) He tells Tommo that Toby escaped.
(c) He tells Tommo that Toby was killed.
(d) He tells Tommo that Toby was captured by the French.

4. How does Tommo dress for the feast?
(a) He wears a robe like the others'.
(b) He is naked.
(c) In a tunic and flowers.
(d) In a loincloth.

5. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?
(a) Justice and peace.
(b) Good food and beautiful women.
(c) Sensory delights.
(d) Eternal grace.

6. What do the women use to lighten and soften their skin?
(a) Poee-poee.
(b) Tappa.
(c) Pi-pi.
(d) Papa.

7. What does Tommo try to engage in with the natives?
(a) Boxing.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Arm-wrestling.
(d) Wrestling.

8. What surprises Tommo about the birds and lizards in Typee?
(a) They are not afraid of humans.
(b) They are so brightly colored.
(c) They are enormous.
(d) They are man-eaters.

9. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?
(a) Five-year-old children swimming with sharks.
(b) Five-year-old children 100 feet up in trees.
(c) Five-year-old children eating human flesh.
(d) Five-year-old children walking on fire.

10. What is Tommo's experience of the mineral spring water?
(a) It rejuvenates him.
(b) It is very hot.
(c) It tastes terrible.
(d) It heals his leg.

11. To whom does Tommo compare the appearance of the Typees favorably?
(a) The French.
(b) The natives at Nukuheva.
(c) Mediterranean sailors.
(d) The Happars.

12. Why do the girls have to leave when Tommo asks for a canoe?
(a) They do not want to be seen in the canoe.
(b) The canoe belongs to a powerful chief and they would be insulting him to get in it without him.
(c) The canoe is taboo.
(d) They cannot swim.

13. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?
(a) People have private property.
(b) People pick fruit without asking anyone's permission.
(c) No one has to do any work.
(d) Men have as many wives as they like.

14. What does Tommo use to make popguns for the Typee children?
(a) Wood salvaged from a shipwreck.
(b) Bones.
(c) Breadfruit shoots.
(d) Bamboo.

15. What does Tommo say is the Typees' one outlet for aggression?
(a) Execution of criminals.
(b) Cannibalism.
(c) Warfare with the Europeans.
(d) Warfare with the Happars.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is scented coconut oil made?

2. Whom does Tommo ask Mehevi to take on the canoe?

3. What instrument do the young women play?

4. What did the natives do to the captain who shot birds in the Bay of Tior, in Tommo's recollection?

5. How big is a breadfruit?

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