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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 is it time for the boys to do?
(a) Eat a meal.
(b) Say a prayer.
(c) Go to bed.
(d) Prepare for fishing.

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

3. Why is Mafatu relegated to the shoreline?
(a) His father worries about him.
(b) He is not skilled enough to fish.
(c) He is perceived to be a bringer of bad luck.
(d) There are too many fishermen.

4. What can he use to make a raft?
(a) Rubber.
(b) A tree.
(c) Bamboo.
(d) Seaweed.

5. How does Mafatu's mother respond to the fishermen?
(a) She heeds their warning.
(b) She changes her mind and follows them.
(c) She laughs at them.
(d) She pays them no attention.

Short Answer Questions

1. What frightens Mafatu?

2. He would be able to return home with a boar's tooth necklace as proof of what?

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

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

5. What symbolizes the courage it took to approach the sacred idol and seize what he needed?

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