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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 Tommo compare to the Typees' cannibalism?
2. What does Tommo find is in short supply on the island?
3. What does Kory-Kory tell Tommo about the ancient site?
4. Who is Moa Artua?
5. Where was Captain Cook supposed to have been cannibalized?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Tommo describe the difference between men's work and women's work?
2. What does Tommo say about the Typees' different foods?
3. Describe a typical day for Tommo.
4. How does Tommo describe the Typees' feelings about war?
5. What does Tommo say about the native practice of tattooing?
6. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.
7. What technology of Tommo's impresses the Typees?
8. Who is Marnoo, and what is his interaction with Tommo?
9. How does Tommo compare the Typees to white people?
10. Describe the preparations for the feast of the calabashes.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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".
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Does Tommo's escape from Typee signify a repudiation of the beauty and harmony he found there? Does he seem to retain some vestige of the Typee lifestyle and values when he returns to life aboard European ships? Does Tommo find that the two lifestyles are ultimately incompatible, or can they be combined or reconciled?
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