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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, and 30, pp. 307-329.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what do the Typee men make their fishing nets?
(a) Tree bark.
(b) Breadfruit husks.
(c) Cloth trees.
(d) Tappa.

2. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?
(a) Five-year-old children walking on fire.
(b) Five-year-old children eating human flesh.
(c) Five-year-old children swimming with sharks.
(d) Five-year-old children 100 feet up in trees.

3. What kind of coconuts do the natives prefer?
(a) Overripe ones that have started to ferment.
(b) Sweet ones that have been on the ground for a few days.
(c) Green ones before they fall from the tree.
(d) Ripe ones that have just fallen to the ground.

4. How high is the waterfall Toby and the narrator encounter?
(a) Two hundred feet.
(b) A hundred fifty feet.
(c) Five hundred feet.
(d) A hundred feet.

5. What does Kory-Kory tell Toby and Tommo about the Happars?
(a) That they will sell them to the French.
(b) That they have been hired by the Americans to find the deserters.
(c) That they are cannibals.
(d) That they are murderers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karky want to do to Tommo?

2. How is breadfruit prepared?

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

4. How long has it been since the narrator saw land, when the book opens?

5. Where did the French Admiral sail for after Nukuheva?

(see the answer key)

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