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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. How does Tommo compare the natives' lives with Europeans'?
(a) He thinks they suffer for their ignorance.
(b) He thinks they have it easier.
(c) He thinks they have more dignity, but less freedom.
(d) He thinks they are filthy and miserable in their poverty.

2. What do the narrator and Toby plan to subsist on on the island?
(a) Food stolen from the ship.
(b) Food stolen from the marketplace.
(c) Food stolen from the natives.
(d) Wild fruit.

3. What do the women use to lighten and soften their skin?
(a) Tappa.
(b) Pi-pi.
(c) Poee-poee.
(d) Papa.

4. What does the narrator use when he descends the waterfall?
(a) A walking stick.
(b) Tree bark for sandals.
(c) Toby's help.
(d) Hanging vines.

5. Why does Tommo say the natives are hostile to Europeans?
(a) Because of their superiority in technology.
(b) Because there are so many of them.
(c) Because they feel superior to them.
(d) Because they have been attacked by them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karky want to do to Tommo?

2. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?

3. What is it taboo for Tommo to touch?

4. Why are the naked old women jumping up and down during the feast?

5. What does Tommo see in earthen ovens when the Typees are preparing their feast?

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