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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The next day, what does Mafatu begin to rebuild?
(a) His shelter.
(b) His canoe.
(c) His friendships.
(d) His life.
2. What does Mafatu use to cauterize the wound on his leg?
(a) Mud.
(b) Aloe.
(c) Eucalyptus.
(d) Wild limes.
3. How does he feel as he heads out to the reef?
(a) Irritated.
(b) Hoping he can stab the shark.
(c) Excited.
(d) Secretly hoping he does not encounter the shark.
4. What does he notice as he begins ripping leaves from a banana tree?
(a) The fruit is missing.
(b) The fruit has been cut cleanly from the branch with a knife.
(c) Smoke from another island.
(d) The fruit is moldy.
5. What can he use to make a raft?
(a) Seaweed.
(b) Rubber.
(c) A tree.
(d) Bamboo.
6. What has always scared him away when he went out to the reef to set his traps?
(a) The hammerhead shark.
(b) The fish.
(c) The murky water.
(d) The current.
7. What has rooted Mafatu to the ground?
(a) Fear.
(b) Uri's growl.
(c) A branch.
(d) Quick sand.
8. What happens when a large wave tips the raft at a severe angle?
(a) The fish traps fall in the water.
(b) Mafatu falls in the water.
(c) Kivi falls in the water.
(d) Uri falls into the water.
9. What does Mafatu begin fashioning?
(a) A lean-to.
(b) Weapons and other useful items.
(c) A spit.
(d) A canoe.
10. What does the boy plan to wait until the next day to do?
(a) Look for cannibals.
(b) Think about his father.
(c) Continue the process.
(d) Hunt for food.
11. Why is Mafatu not ready to find food?
(a) He is not yet strong enough to climb one of the many coconut trees on the island.
(b) He does not know where to look for food.
(c) He is afraid of the island.
(d) He does not know how to catch food.
12. Who helps Mafatu drag the bones down the beach?
(a) Maui.
(b) Kana.
(c) Uri.
(d) Kivi.
13. How does Mafatu fall asleep?
(a) Full of his own confidence.
(b) Eventually.
(c) Fitfully.
(d) Quckly.
14. Why is he starting to think that perhaps his ending up on this spot was a cruel joke on the part of Moana, the Sea God?
(a) Moana wants him back in the sea.
(b) Moana will not allow him food.
(c) Perhaps Moana was upset for having been cheated.
(d) He will not be able to find shelter.
15. How does he fashion a fish trap?
(a) From a shell.
(b) From a log.
(c) From bamboo.
(d) From a piece of trash.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Mafatu decide to explore?
2. What does he make out of coconut-tree fronds?
3. What frightens Mafatu?
4. What does he need to make a fishhook?
5. What does Mafatu wake up the next morning and remember?
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