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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's name in "Typee"?

2. What causes Tommo intense pain in the Typee village?

3. What do the French want to demonstrate to the natives at Nukuheva?

4. Where do the sailors set up their hut?

5. Whom does Mehevi bring to Toby and Tommo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the Typees bring Toby back to their village after the noon-time siesta?

2. What are the Ti and the Hoolah Hoolah grounds?

3. Describe the French efforts to take over the harbor of Nukuheva.

4. Describe Tommo's companion Toby.

5. Toby and Tommo follow a footpath. Where does it lead them, and how do they proceed?

6. Describe the residents of the island of Nukuheva.

7. Who comes to see the sailors on their first morning in the Typee village?

8. What communication do Toby and Tommo exchange with the natives?

9. How does Tommo feel about his time on the Dolly?

10. What does Tommo see as his ship comes into Nukuheva bay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a review of "Typee". What did the book set out to do, how did it set out to do it, and did it fulfill the promises it laid out in the opening chapters? How would you characterize the essence of this book? Melville's personality? Melville's literary interests and talents?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the relationships between society and nature in the novel. What different uses does nature have to the whites? To the natives? Do the whites and natives have different relationships with the natural world? How does Melville characterize the different perspectives?

Essay Topic 3

In what ways is "Typee" an outgrowth of Melville's own experience? Research Melville's biography, and compare and contrast his shipboard experience with the experience he describes in "Typee".

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