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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 hear some of the other boys calling his crafty work?
(a) A waste of time.
(b) Stupid.
(c) Woman's work.
(d) Boring.

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

3. What would cause Mafatu to lose his spear or line?
(a) The rough seas.
(b) A large fish.
(c) Bad memories would take over his hands.
(d) Other children.

4. What makes Mafatu feel all but worthless?
(a) His lack of knowledge about fishing.
(b) The silence and disapproval of his father.
(c) His inability to fight.
(d) His lack of a mother.

5. Why is Mafatu relegated to the shoreline?
(a) He is not skilled enough to fish.
(b) His father worries about him.
(c) He is perceived to be a bringer of bad luck.
(d) There are too many fishermen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mafatu wonder how he could be a brave leader?

2. What does Mafatu recall for the reader?

3. What danger do they survive?

4. Why does Mafatu's mother take him out to the barrier reef?

5. What does Mafatu have to endure?

(see the answer key)

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