Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life [Edited by George Woodcock] | Short Answer Test Questions

Short Answer Questions

Directions: Answer each question with the appropriate short response.

Short Answer Questions - Chapters 1, and 2, pp. 1-20

1. What is the narrator's name in "Typee"?

2. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?

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

4. Toward what land does the ship steer?

5. On what kind of ship is the narrator sailing?

6. Who causes a scene when they arrive on the narrator's ship?

7. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?

8. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?

9. How big is the island of Nukuheva?

10. Who or what approaches the Dolly when it...
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