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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 amar made of?

2. What are pi-pis used for?

3. What does Tommo see when he comes back from the Ti one day?

4. What does Tommo compare to the Typees' cannibalism?

5. Why do the girls have to leave when Tommo asks for a canoe?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the harmonious aspects of Typee life Tommo notices.

2. Describe the Stonehenge-like site Tommo sees.

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

4. What does Tommo say about the natives' musical arts?

5. Who is Marnoo, and what is his interaction with Tommo?

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

7. How does Tommo describe the Typees' feelings about war?

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

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

10. What kinds of animal life does Tommo find on the island with the Typees?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tommo's leg is swollen and a hindrance almost from the start of his narrative. What effect does this injury/illness have on Tommo's experience, what influence does it have on the novel and what does the illness/injury represent as a metaphor or symbol in the symbolic economy of the novel? Is it contrasted with instances of vitality and freedom of movement? Is injury or illness particular to Tommo as a white person?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

How would you describe "Typee" as an allegory? What allegorical or moral meaning does "Typee" have? What is it an allegory for? What do its plot, its development, and its ultimate resolution teach us? Is there a clear moral to the book? Do you think the book's moral is clear, intentionally vague, or accidentally vague?

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