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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Mafatu's mother struggle to feed him?
(a) She wants the food for herself.
(b) The food is hard to get to.
(c) She is full of fear.
(d) She is incredibly weak from the long battle.

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

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

4. What does Mafatu hear some of the other boys calling his crafty work?
(a) Woman's work.
(b) A waste of time.
(c) Stupid.
(d) Boring.

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

6. From what does Mafatu drink?
(a) A canteen.
(b) One of the green drinking nuts.
(c) The sea.
(d) A coconut.

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

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

9. How does Mafatu react when he finally realizes how truly isolated he is?
(a) Relaxed for the first time.
(b) Gripped by terror.
(c) Slightly nervous.
(d) Unsure.

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

11. How are they end up in the churning sea?
(a) When their boat capsizes.
(b) When Mafatu's mother jumps overboard.
(c) When the boat begins to leak.
(d) When the boat collapses.

12. What makes Mafatu feel all but worthless?
(a) His inability to fight.
(b) His lack of a mother.
(c) His lack of knowledge about fishing.
(d) The silence and disapproval of his father.

13. Years later, what is Mafatu left wondering?
(a) Where his mother has gone.
(b) Why his mother stayed on the sea.
(c) How he is ever going to become a fisherman.
(d) When he will see his mother again.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mafatu forget about being hungry and thirsty?

2. What gives them relief from the heat?

3. What does Mafatu have to endure?

4. For what does Mafatu search?

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

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