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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 discover when he surveys the situation?
(a) A shark is circling his canoe.
(b) Uri is choking for air, stuck under the bow.
(c) Kivi is calling to him.
(d) Uri is nowhere to be found.

2. What does Mafatu spot at the sacred spot?
(a) Clothing.
(b) A knife.
(c) A spearhead.
(d) Food.

3. About what is Mafatu unsure?
(a) Which island he is on.
(b) What food is safe to eat.
(c) How to hunt.
(d) Where his friends have gone.

4. What does he do after he scrambles to the lookout point?
(a) He dances in the firelight.
(b) He drops to his knees, crawling forward.
(c) He calls for Kivi.
(d) He yells to the men.

5. Why does Mafatu wonder how he could be a brave leader?
(a) If he is not strong enough.
(b) If he does not know how to fish.
(c) If he is afraid to venture past the water's edge.
(d) If he is afraid to use weapons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mafatu afraid will disappear, if he takes his eyes off of it?

2. Who emerges from the water, sopping wet?

3. What frightens Mafatu?

4. What does Mafatu use to cauterize the wound on his leg?

5. He hated doing these tasks back in Hikueru. How does he feel now?

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