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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mafatu notice in the distance that gives him hope?
(a) Sunlight.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Land.
(d) The "lagoon-fire."

2. What is Mafatu amazed and relieved to discover?
(a) The hail lasted only a moment.
(b) The storm was not very strong.
(c) He has survived.
(d) No whales were around him.

3. Into what does he throw "half a dozen green drinking nuts and his fish spear?"
(a) A bag.
(b) A gourd.
(c) A box.
(d) A canoe.

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

5. Who does Mafatu begin to follow?
(a) Uri.
(b) His father.
(c) Kivi.
(d) Kana.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did he initially think that Maui had led him to this island?

2. How does Mafatu fell a tree?

3. How does Tavana Nui suddenly realize who the boy is?

4. How does he fashion a fish trap?

5. What does Mafatu wake up the next morning and remember?

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