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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mafatu fall asleep?
(a) Fitfully.
(b) Full of his own confidence.
(c) Quckly.
(d) Eventually.

2. When does Mafatu climb up into the branches of the tree?
(a) When the fire has almost burned through the trunk of the tree.
(b) As the tree is falling.
(c) Before he fells the tree.
(d) After the tree has fallen.

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

4. The situation becomes very reminiscent of what?
(a) Hurrican weather.
(b) Night.
(c) The storms in his dreams.
(d) The tragic day when Mafatu's mother died.

5. What danger do they survive?
(a) Dehydration.
(b) Hypothermia.
(c) The sharks circling around them.
(d) Starvation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does he fashion a fish trap?

2. What does the current do to their canoe?

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

4. What does Mafatu's experience with the sea tell him?

5. Who used to slide down a lava slide in banana leaves?

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