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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 does Mafatu realize when he is shocked into full awareness by the cold water?
(a) He is drowning.
(b) He has hit his head.
(c) How far away from home he is.
(d) He cannot find his dog.

2. With what is Mafatu suddenly filled?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Fear.
(c) Resolve.
(d) Anger.

3. What does Mafatu's experience with the sea tell him?
(a) The sharks are circling him.
(b) He can drink the water.
(c) There is a school of fish below him.
(d) There is a storm coming.

4. Who emerges from the water, sopping wet?
(a) Kana.
(b) Uri.
(c) His father.
(d) Kivi.

5. What is Mafatu soon amazed to see?
(a) A cloudless sky.
(b) More birds.
(c) Fresh water.
(d) Land in the distance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mafatu have to endure?

2. How are they end up in the churning sea?

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

4. How does Mafatu react when he finally realizes how truly isolated he is?

5. Against what do the fishermen warn her?

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