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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. Why can Mafatu stand up?
(a) Uri helps him.
(b) Maui is holding his hand.
(c) There is sand beneath his feet.
(d) His mother's spirit stands him up.

2. What happens just as suddenly?
(a) The wind dies down and the sea is still again.
(b) Uri climbs back in the canoe.
(c) Kivi leaves again.
(d) The canoe stops moving.

3. What happens eventually and gradually?
(a) The storm lets up.
(b) Mafatu becomes more nervous.
(c) The sun sets.
(d) The storm picks up.

4. What gives them relief from the heat?
(a) Shade from Kivi.
(b) Night.
(c) Clouds.
(d) A cool breeze.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where has a current formed?

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

3. Soon, what comes?

4. For what does Mafatu search?

5. The situation becomes very reminiscent of what?

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