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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Homeward.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Years later, what is Mafatu left wondering?
(a) How he is ever going to become a fisherman.
(b) When he will see his mother again.
(c) Why his mother stayed on the sea.
(d) Where his mother has gone.

2. What leads toward the sea and to a large clearing?
(a) A stream.
(b) Foot prints.
(c) The trail.
(d) A trail of shells.

3. What would cause Mafatu to lose his spear or line?
(a) Bad memories would take over his hands.
(b) A large fish.
(c) The rough seas.
(d) Other children.

4. What has always scared him away when he went out to the reef to set his traps?
(a) The murky water.
(b) The fish.
(c) The current.
(d) The hammerhead shark.

5. Of what is Mafatu acutely aware?
(a) He is tired.
(b) The sharks circling around his canoe at night.
(c) He is hungry.
(d) He is afraid.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the hours pass?

2. When does the tree fall to the ground?

3. What does he begin to think about killing?

4. What happens when they follow him into the water?

5. To where does he head?

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