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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens just as suddenly?
(a) The canoe stops moving.
(b) The wind dies down and the sea is still again.
(c) Uri climbs back in the canoe.
(d) Kivi leaves again.

2. What else taunts him?
(a) The fish.
(b) The tribal warriors.
(c) His mother, in his dreams.
(d) The sea.

3. With what is Mafatu suddenly filled?
(a) Resolve.
(b) Anger.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Fear.

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

5. What happens as the current gets quicker?
(a) Uri falls in the water.
(b) The canoe moves faster.
(c) Kivi returns.
(d) The wind begins to pick up.

6. 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.

7. Soon, what comes?
(a) Warriors.
(b) His father.
(c) Another night.
(d) Another storm.

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

9. What does Mafatu wonder about his father, Tavana Nui?
(a) If he will be angry with him.
(b) If he would be upset, once he realizes his son is missing.
(c) If he will follow him.
(d) It he will be relieved that his son has left.

10. What does the current do to their canoe?
(a) It pushes it towards the other canoes.
(b) It spins it around.
(c) It takes hold of it.
(d) It goes around it.

11. Suddenly, what does the bird do?
(a) Flies overhead.
(b) Catches a fish.
(c) He flies away.
(d) Flies to him.

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

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

14. When morning comes, who is with Mafatu?
(a) Himself.
(b) Kana.
(c) Uri and Kivi.
(d) His father.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what does Mafatu drink?

2. How does Mafatu react when he finally realizes how truly isolated he is?

3. Why can Mafatu stand up?

4. What does the sky cast upon the tiny canoe?

5. What is Mafatu convinced will swallow him up?

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