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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Homeward.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy plan to wait until the next day to do?
(a) Hunt for food.
(b) Think about his father.
(c) Continue the process.
(d) Look for cannibals.

2. What has always scared him away when he went out to the reef to set his traps?
(a) The fish.
(b) The hammerhead shark.
(c) The current.
(d) The murky water.

3. Why does the sight of a shark swimming nearby not stop him?
(a) He wants to find Uri.
(b) The water is so cold.
(c) He is driven by a will to live.
(d) He is hungry.

4. Who is the only person who has ever been nice to the outcast boy?
(a) His father.
(b) His goddess.
(c) His mother.
(d) Kana.

5. He has the skill and resources to build a net but cannot get out to the "distant reef" to cast the net without his canoe. What does this do to him?
(a) It irritates him.
(b) It worries him.
(c) It makes him excited about the challenge.
(d) It further complicates the situation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mafatu feel about the eaten fish?

2. Where are fish hooks made from bone, coconut-shell bowls, an extra clothing garment made waterproof for wet weather, and a coil of sennit found?

3. How does he move toward the idol?

4. What does he notice as he begins ripping leaves from a banana tree?

5. What does Mafatu wonder about his father, Tavana Nui?

(see the answer key)

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