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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1 Flight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Years later, what is Mafatu left wondering?
(a) How he is ever going to become a fisherman.
(b) Where his mother has gone.
(c) Why his mother stayed on the sea.
(d) When he will see his mother again.

2. Why does Mafatu's mother take him out to the barrier reef?
(a) To swim through the coral.
(b) To look for sea urchins.
(c) To catch fish.
(d) To look for his father.

3. How are they end up in the churning sea?
(a) When the boat collapses.
(b) When Mafatu's mother jumps overboard.
(c) When their boat capsizes.
(d) When the boat begins to leak.

4. How does Mafatu feel about the sea?
(a) Fearless.
(b) Fear.
(c) Excited.
(d) Unsure.

5. Who treats Mafatu poorly?
(a) The other children.
(b) His teachers.
(c) His step-mother.
(d) His father and the other children in the village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened when Mafatu attempts to overcome his fear?

2. Where has a current formed?

3. Who does Mafatu begin to follow?

4. Into what does he throw "half a dozen green drinking nuts and his fish spear?"

5. Why is Mafatu relegated to the shoreline?

(see the answer key)

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