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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 The Sea.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mafatu afraid will disappear, if he takes his eyes off of it?
(a) His father's canoe.
(b) Kivi.
(c) Uri's body.
(d) The wedge of land rising out of the sea.

2. Who might his father think had taken his son?
(a) His mother's spirit.
(b) Moana, the Sea God.
(c) Maui, the Goddess of Fishermen.
(d) Kana.

3. From what is Mafatu getting no relief?
(a) His fear.
(b) The blistering sun and thirst.
(c) Uri's whining.
(d) His hunger.

4. Who does Mafatu begin to follow?
(a) Kana.
(b) Kivi.
(c) His father.
(d) Uri.

5. Why does Mafatu forget about being hungry and thirsty?
(a) He sees his goddess.
(b) Uri has fallen in the water.
(c) The sight of land spurring him onward.
(d) His father's canoe is behind him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the boy do when he flings himself onto the floor of the canoe?

2. What does Mafatu recall for the reader?

3. Why is Mafatu relegated to the shoreline?

4. What is Mafatu resolved to do?

5. Why does Mafatu decide to do this?

(see the answer key)

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