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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tommo say is women's work?
(a) Light occupations.
(b) Harvesting breadfruit.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Bathing and frolicking.

2. What is it taboo for Tommo to touch?
(a) Tappa cloth.
(b) Certain feathers.
(c) Tattooing materials.
(d) Hunting implements.

3. What is the benefit of the low reproductive rates of the Typees?
(a) They can keep the most fit children.
(b) They pass down property without dividing it.
(c) They do not overtax their food supply.
(d) They cannot afford destructive warfare.

4. What does Kory-Kory bring to Tommo to add variety to his diet?
(a) Seaweed.
(b) Boar.
(c) Pork.
(d) Wild birds.

5. Who is Moa Artua?
(a) The head god of the Typees.
(b) The medicine man of the Typees.
(c) The original Typee founder.
(d) The head chieftain of the Typees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marnoo say that shocks Tommo?

2. What does Marheyo make with Tommo's shoes?

3. What animals is Tommo surprised to find in Typee?

4. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?

5. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sight disturbs Tommo?

2. How do the Typees harvest coconuts, in Tommo's account?

3. How is the men's company different from the women's company for Tommo?

4. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

5. Describe the preparations for the feast of the calabashes.

6. How does Tommo compare the Typees to white people?

7. What technology of Tommo's impresses the Typees?

8. What does Tommo say about the natives' fishing expedition?

9. Describe the mausoleum Tommo sees.

10. Describe a typical day for Tommo.

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