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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mafatu's mother decide to do?
(a) Find a new fishing spot.
(b) Brave the elements.
(c) Send Mafatu with the other men.
(d) Join the other canoes.

2. What danger do they survive?
(a) Starvation.
(b) The sharks circling around them.
(c) Dehydration.
(d) Hypothermia.

3. What does Mafatu's mother finally decide to do?
(a) Send Mafatu with the other fishermen.
(b) Continue to fish.
(c) Continue looking for sea urchins.
(d) Head back to shore.

4. What is it time for the boys to do?
(a) Eat a meal.
(b) Say a prayer.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Prepare for fishing.

5. Into what does he throw "half a dozen green drinking nuts and his fish spear?"
(a) A canoe.
(b) A bag.
(c) A gourd.
(d) A box.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Mafatu relegated to the shoreline?

2. What does Mafatu have to endure?

3. How long do they stay in the sea?

4. Why does Mafatu decide to do this?

5. What does the current do to their canoe?

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