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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much experience of white men have the natives had?
(a) They have traveled with white men.
(b) They have taken white men among them before.
(c) They have never observed them closely before.
(d) They have traded with them for years.

2. What do the narrator and Toby follow to the cliff?
(a) A road.
(b) A river.
(c) A footpath.
(d) The sound of drums.

3. How does the narrator describe Toby?
(a) As quick and bird-like.
(b) As short and stout.
(c) As hearty and robust.
(d) As small and limber.

4. What happens to the narrator's leg?
(a) It is struck by a native's hunting dart.
(b) It swells up.
(c) He cuts it badly.
(d) It is caught in some rocks.

5. Why does the narrator run away from the Dolly?
(a) He falls in love with a native girl.
(b) He considers the captain a tyrant.
(c) He was left ashore mistakenly.
(d) He wants to be alone.

6. How comfortable is the hut the sailors build?
(a) It cannot keep out the rain.
(b) It is filled with ants and lizards.
(c) Its floor is rocky and uneven.
(d) It is snug and warm.

7. Who are Toby and Tommo surrounded by when they wake up in the Typee village?
(a) Old women.
(b) Young men.
(c) Old men.
(d) Young girls.

8. Who or what approaches the Dolly when it reaches Nukuheva?
(a) A drunken Englishman.
(b) A Spanish ship.
(c) A French ship.
(d) A deserted sailor.

9. What causes Tommo intense pain in the Typee village?
(a) He is hit in a fight to escape.
(b) He is tied up by the Typee warriors.
(c) He cuts himself on a reed.
(d) The doctor hits his leg.

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

11. What do Fayaway and Tinor wear as decorations?
(a) Wooden headdresses.
(b) Flower necklaces.
(c) Fish tails.
(d) Bone piercings.

12. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?
(a) A palm tree.
(b) Low bushes.
(c) The water.
(d) Native hunters.

13. How is the news of a boat in the bay carried to all the Typees?
(a) A runner.
(b) A signal flag.
(c) A vocal telegraph.
(d) A signal fire.

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

15. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?
(a) Shy.
(b) Easy-going.
(c) Lazy.
(d) Passionate.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?

3. Who are the Happars?

4. What do the narrator and Toby grab on their way off the ship?

5. What do Toby and the narrator see when they reach the valley at the bottom of the second waterfall?

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