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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 does Toby tell Tommo about the natives?

2. Where does the captain tell the sailors to stay near?

3. Who comes to see Toby and Tommo after they wake up?

4. How is the news of a boat in the bay carried to all the Typees?

5. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to Tommo's health as he and Toby make their way around in the mountains?

3. What preparations do Toby and Tommo make, and what obstacles do they encounter when they escape?

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

5. What signs of civilization do Toby and Tommo see from the mountains?

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

7. What is life like on the whaling ship for Tommo?

8. Describe the incident with the French and the English missionaries.

9. What kind of routine does Tommo enter into with Kory-Kory?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the symbolic landscape of Nukuheva? What associations and symbolic meanings resonate in each of the settings: the seashore, the mountains, the ravines, the village, the sacred grounds? Describe Toby and Tommo's movement through the various landscapes in symbolic or allegorical terms.

Essay Topic 2

How does the idea of the taboo apply to "Typee"? What characters or things are taboo, and what does the taboo mean in each case? Are taboos violated? Are exceptions made? What is Tommo's relationship with the Typee taboos? Is he initiated into any of them or is he kept apart from them?

Essay Topic 3

After arranging his escape, Tommo is largely passive, ostensibly because of his leg, but possibly because of his personality. In what ways does Tommo act, and how do his actions change over the course of the book? E.g. in the beginning of the book, he is plotting to escape from the ship, in the end he is plotting to escape from Typee. How are these actions similar or different?

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