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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 think about human sacrifices before the feast?

2. What does Karky want to do to Tommo?

3. What does Narmonee use for shaving his head?

4. When the Typees prepare for their feast, what do they make their pyramid out of?

5. Where does Kory-Kory tell Tommo the chief in the mausoleum is going?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tommo describe of the natives' cosmetics?

3. What does Tommo say about relations between Typee husbands and wives?

4. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

5. Describe the Stonehenge-like site Tommo sees.

6. What does Tommo say about the native practice of tattooing?

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

8. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.

9. Describe a typical day for Tommo.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways do the Typees live up to Tommo's original ideas about them? In what ways are they different from his early impressions? What conclusions does he ultimately draw about them? What changes his original ideas, if his original ideas change?

Essay Topic 2

How does Tommo change or grow through the action of "Typee"? How is he a different person at the end of the book than he was at the beginning?

Essay Topic 3

What barriers do Tommo and the Typees put up between themselves to preserve the difference between each other's cultures? How does Tommo remain a white man? How does he become a native? How are the natives affected by Tommo's culture? How do they protect their culture from Tommo's influence?

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