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

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

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

5. How do the other fishermen feel about her decision?
(a) Content.
(b) Concern.
(c) Unconcerned.
(d) Angry.

6. How does Mafatu feel about the sea?
(a) Excited.
(b) Fearless.
(c) Unsure.
(d) Fear.

7. What has Mafatu resolved to do this year?
(a) Leave home.
(b) Learn a new skill.
(c) Shrug off his restraints and face his fear.
(d) Tell his father how he feels.

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

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

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

11. What does Mafatu do by the shoreline?
(a) He cries.
(b) He sits and watches the other men.
(c) He fashions spears, nets, and sharkline for the other young boys to use.
(d) He prays to the goddess to help him.

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

13. What has happened when Mafatu attempts to overcome his fear?
(a) He does not have the skills to overcome his fear.
(b) He is only successful for a little while.
(c) Everyone laughs at him.
(d) He is overcome by the power of the sea to intimidate him.

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

15. 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.