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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 Drums.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mafatu need to fashion a new canoe?
(a) An oak tree.
(b) Reeds.
(c) A tamanu tree.
(d) A palm tree.

2. What happens when Mafatu tries to catch his friend?
(a) He is too late.
(b) He falls in too.
(c) He drops him.
(d) He makes a net.

3. What does he soon do?
(a) Reaches the summit of the hill.
(b) Climb to the top of a tree.
(c) Climb to the top of the ladder.
(d) Finds fresh water.

4. What is Mafatu convinced will swallow him up?
(a) An underwater cave.
(b) A giant wave starts thundering toward the canoe.
(c) A giant whale.
(d) The Sea God.

5. What frightens Mafatu?
(a) The dark water.
(b) To see the shark heading right for his dog.
(c) The waves.
(d) The current.

Short Answer Questions

1. The next day shows what?

2. Who might his father think had taken his son?

3. How does Mafatu fall asleep?

4. What does Mafatu do to the shark?

5. Who helps Mafatu drag the bones down the beach?

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