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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Tommo ask Mehevi to take on the canoe?

2. What does Kory-Kory bring to Tommo to add variety to his diet?

3. What is Tommo disgusted by in how the Typees eat fish?

4. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?

5. Where was Captain Cook supposed to have been cannibalized?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tommo say about the Typees' different foods?

2. Describe a typical day for Tommo.

3. What does Tommo say about the native practice of tattooing?

4. Who is Marnoo, and what is his interaction with Tommo?

5. What does Tommo say about relations between Typee husbands and wives?

6. What kinds of animal life does Tommo find on the island with the Typees?

7. How is the men's company different from the women's company for Tommo?

8. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

9. How does Tommo compare the Typees to white people?

10. What does Tommo describe of the natives' cosmetics?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Cannibalism is a major threat in "Typee", but it is not much in evidence. Do the instances of supposed cannibalism live up to the threatening rhetoric about cannibalistic practices, or is cannibalism largely a red herring, an ultimately meaningless and unthreatening idea in the economy of the novel? How does the significance of cannibalism change throughout "Typee"?

Essay Topic 2

What are Toby and Tommo's views about women, and how are their views about women different from the Typees' views about women?

Essay Topic 3

What is Melville's relationship with his narrator? Are we as readers limited to the narrator's perspective, or does the author give us other perspectives, including his own (authorial) perspective? Describe the different lenses through which we see the action in "Typee".

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