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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) Join the other canoes.
(d) Send Mafatu with the other men.

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

3. What happens to Mafatu's mother after raising the coconut to her son's lips?
(a) She dies.
(b) The other fishermen save her.
(c) She loses conciousness.
(d) She drinks from the coconut.

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

5. What does Mafatu recall for the reader?
(a) A life-changing event that happened to him early in his childhood.
(b) A miracle that occurred early in his childhood.
(c) How he became a member of the tribe.
(d) When his father grew a heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mafatu resolved to do?

2. Why does Mafatu's mother struggle to feed him?

3. Why is Mafatu relegated to the shoreline?

4. Years later, what is Mafatu left wondering?

5. Against what do the fishermen warn her?

(see the answer key)

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