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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mafatu wonder how he could be a brave leader?
(a) If he is afraid to venture past the water's edge.
(b) If he is not strong enough.
(c) If he is afraid to use weapons.
(d) If he does not know how to fish.

2. What happens to Mafatu's mother after raising the coconut to her son's lips?
(a) She loses conciousness.
(b) She dies.
(c) The other fishermen save her.
(d) She drinks from the coconut.

3. What else taunts him?
(a) The fish.
(b) The sea.
(c) The tribal warriors.
(d) His mother, in his dreams.

4. What does Mafatu do by the shoreline?
(a) He fashions spears, nets, and sharkline for the other young boys to use.
(b) He prays to the goddess to help him.
(c) He sits and watches the other men.
(d) He cries.

5. Why does Mafatu's mother take him out to the barrier reef?
(a) To catch fish.
(b) To look for sea urchins.
(c) To look for his father.
(d) To swim through the coral.

6. Into what does he throw "half a dozen green drinking nuts and his fish spear?"
(a) A gourd.
(b) A box.
(c) A bag.
(d) A canoe.

7. What happens eventually and gradually?
(a) Mafatu becomes more nervous.
(b) The sun sets.
(c) The storm lets up.
(d) The storm picks up.

8. What gives them relief from the heat?
(a) Night.
(b) A cool breeze.
(c) Clouds.
(d) Shade from Kivi.

9. How long do they stay in the sea?
(a) Two days.
(b) For a few hours.
(c) For the whole of the night.
(d) One week.

10. Who emerges from the water, sopping wet?
(a) Kivi.
(b) Kana.
(c) Uri.
(d) His father.

11. Against what do the fishermen warn her?
(a) Fishing too close to the reef.
(b) Staying out in the water.
(c) Catching sea urchins.
(d) Fishing at night.

12. What no longer hangs around his neck?
(a) His canteen.
(b) A symbol of the Sea God.
(c) His knife.
(d) A gift from his father.

13. What is Mafatu convinced will swallow him up?
(a) The Sea God.
(b) A giant whale.
(c) A giant wave starts thundering toward the canoe.
(d) An underwater cave.

14. Why does Mafatu's mother struggle to feed him?
(a) She is full of fear.
(b) The food is hard to get to.
(c) She wants the food for herself.
(d) She is incredibly weak from the long battle.

15. Who is the only person who has ever been nice to the outcast boy?
(a) His father.
(b) Kana.
(c) His goddess.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Years later, what is Mafatu left wondering?

2. What happens as the current gets quicker?

3. To whom does Mafatu pray?

4. What does the current do to their canoe?

5. The situation becomes very reminiscent of what?

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