2. What happens to Mafatu's mother after raising the coconut to her son's lips?
(a) The other fishermen save her.
(b) She loses conciousness.
(c) She dies.
(d) She drinks from the coconut.

3. How does Mafatu feel?
(a) Content.
(b) Worried.
(c) Excited.
(d) Isolated.

4. Who treats Mafatu poorly?
(a) His teachers.
(b) His step-mother.
(c) His father and the other children in the village.
(d) The other children.

5. What happens eventually and gradually?
(a) The storm picks up.
(b) The storm lets up.
(c) Mafatu becomes more nervous.
(d) The sun sets.

6. From what is Mafatu getting no relief?
(a) His hunger.
(b) The blistering sun and thirst.
(c) His fear.
(d) Uri's whining.

7. What is Mafatu afraid will disappear, if he takes his eyes off of it?
(a) Uri's body.
(b) Kivi.
(c) The wedge of land rising out of the sea.
(d) His father's canoe.

8. What does Mafatu's mother decide to do?
(a) Join the other canoes.
(b) Brave the elements.
(c) Find a new fishing spot.
(d) Send Mafatu with the other men.

9. What gives them relief from the heat?
(a) Shade from Kivi.
(b) Night.
(c) A cool breeze.
(d) Clouds.

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

11. What is Mafatu soon amazed to see?
(a) More birds.
(b) Land in the distance.
(c) Fresh water.
(d) A cloudless sky.

12. What do the other fishermen do after turning their canoes around?
(a) They head for the safety of dry land.
(b) They find a new place to fish.
(c) They slowly head back home.
(d) They count their catch.

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

14. What does the sky cast upon the tiny canoe?
(a) A shadow.
(b) Thunder and lightning.
(c) Rain.
(d) Hail.

15. What no longer hangs around his neck?
(a) His canteen.
(b) His knife.
(c) A gift from his father.
(d) A symbol of the Sea God.