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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27and 28, pp. 293-306.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the girls have to leave when Tommo asks for a canoe?
(a) They cannot swim.
(b) The canoe is taboo.
(c) They do not want to be seen in the canoe.
(d) The canoe belongs to a powerful chief and they would be insulting him to get in it without him.

2. What does Tommo see in earthen ovens when the Typees are preparing their feast?
(a) Tappa.
(b) Reeds.
(c) Fish.
(d) Poee-poee packets.

3. What does the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?
(a) A natives hunting party.
(b) An inhabited valley.
(c) A wild boar.
(d) Sailors looking for him and Toby.

4. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?
(a) Sensory delights.
(b) Justice and peace.
(c) Good food and beautiful women.
(d) Eternal grace.

5. Who are the Typees?
(a) Friends of the Happars.
(b) Cannibals.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) Friends of the Nukuheva.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Toby end up unconscious?

2. What do the French put ashore at the beginning of Chapter 3?

3. What does Tommo find at the Ti groves?

4. How big is a breadfruit?

5. Where is private property a Typee practice?

(see the answer key)

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