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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy plan to wait until the next day to do?
(a) Continue the process.
(b) Look for cannibals.
(c) Hunt for food.
(d) Think about his father.

2. Where are fish hooks made from bone, coconut-shell bowls, an extra clothing garment made waterproof for wet weather, and a coil of sennit found?
(a) Inside the house.
(b) Inside a bag.
(c) On the beach.
(d) In a hollow tree.

3. What does Mafatu sees after he slides down the lava slide?
(a) Fresh water.
(b) A manmade path leading through the jungle.
(c) A school of fish.
(d) A whale in the water.

4. He would be able to return home with a boar's tooth necklace as proof of what?
(a) He is strong.
(b) His bravery and hunting prowess.
(c) He likes to kill.
(d) He killed a boar.

5. What is he able to make?
(a) Nets, knives, sharkline and fishhooks.
(b) A hammock.
(c) A gun.
(d) A flying machine.

6. What is a moto tabu?
(a) His favorite phrase.
(b) A Forbidden Island.
(c) A prayer.
(d) A type of food.

7. How do the following days find Mafatu?
(a) Busy all the time.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Excited.
(d) More worried.

8. What does Mafatu wake up the next morning and remember?
(a) The crazy events that led him to the beach on which he now lays.
(b) How his mother died.
(c) That Uri was injured.
(d) That Kivi never returned.

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

10. How does Mafatu feel when the construction of a new canoe is complete?
(a) Worn out.
(b) Sad.
(c) Excited to drop the craft in the water.
(d) Anxious.

11. How does Mafatu fall asleep?
(a) Quckly.
(b) Fitfully.
(c) Eventually.
(d) Full of his own confidence.

12. What does Mafatu discover lying on the beach?
(a) The skeleton of a whale.
(b) A raft.
(c) A shark.
(d) A man.

13. What does he think about again?
(a) How hungry he is.
(b) The island he had seen with the smoke rising above the trees.
(c) How alone he is.
(d) The island is dangerous.

14. Why is he starting to think that perhaps his ending up on this spot was a cruel joke on the part of Moana, the Sea God?
(a) Moana wants him back in the sea.
(b) Moana will not allow him food.
(c) Perhaps Moana was upset for having been cheated.
(d) He will not be able to find shelter.

15. He hated doing these tasks back in Hikueru. How does he feel now?
(a) He wishes he were better at them.
(b) He is grateful for the skills now.
(c) He wishes he had practiced them more at home.
(d) He still hates them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he notice as he begins ripping leaves from a banana tree?

2. About what is Mafatu unsure?

3. What swallows the fish Mafatu has caught?

4. Why does Mafatu decide not to go to his lookout to check for the arrival of the eaters-of-men?

5. What does Mafatu begin to take care of?

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