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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mafatu's mother respond to the fishermen?
(a) She heeds their warning.
(b) She laughs at them.
(c) She pays them no attention.
(d) She changes her mind and follows them.

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

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

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

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

6. What danger do they survive?
(a) Hypothermia.
(b) Dehydration.
(c) The sharks circling around them.
(d) Starvation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What does Mafatu realize when he is shocked into full awareness by the cold water?
(a) How far away from home he is.
(b) He cannot find his dog.
(c) He is drowning.
(d) He has hit his head.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the tiny canoe?

2. What no longer hangs around his neck?

3. Why can Mafatu stand up?

4. How does Mafatu feel about the sea?

5. How long do they stay in the sea?

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