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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mafatu forget about being hungry and thirsty?
(a) The sight of land spurring him onward.
(b) He sees his goddess.
(c) Uri has fallen in the water.
(d) His father's canoe is behind him.

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

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

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

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

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

9. Where has a current formed?
(a) Around her canoe.
(b) On the other side of the reef.
(c) By the shoulder of the reef passage.
(d) By the other canoes.

10. What is Mafatu amazed and relieved to discover?
(a) The storm was not very strong.
(b) He has survived.
(c) The hail lasted only a moment.
(d) No whales were around him.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What no longer hangs around his neck?

2. What is Mafatu convinced will swallow him up?

3. What does the boy do when he flings himself onto the floor of the canoe?

4. How are they end up in the churning sea?

5. Who emerges from the water, sopping wet?

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