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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Mafatu climb up into the branches of the tree?
(a) Before he fells the tree.
(b) After the tree has fallen.
(c) When the fire has almost burned through the trunk of the tree.
(d) As the tree is falling.

2. About what is Mafatu unsure?
(a) How to hunt.
(b) What food is safe to eat.
(c) Where his friends have gone.
(d) Which island he is on.

3. How does he feel when he moves a bone?
(a) Worried.
(b) Surprised.
(c) Frightened.
(d) Disgusted.

4. What swallows the fish Mafatu has caught?
(a) A wave.
(b) The shark.
(c) Kivi.
(d) Uri.

5. How does he fashion a fish trap?
(a) From a log.
(b) From a piece of trash.
(c) From bamboo.
(d) From a shell.

6. What does Mafatu sees after he slides down the lava slide?
(a) A manmade path leading through the jungle.
(b) Fresh water.
(c) A whale in the water.
(d) A school of fish.

7. What does he make out of coconut-tree fronds?
(a) A plate.
(b) A blanket.
(c) Clothing.
(d) A lean-to.

8. What does he think about the skills he had acquired back home?
(a) They are a waste.
(b) They are proving useful now.
(c) They help a little.
(d) They need to be improved.

9. What is he able to make?
(a) A gun.
(b) A hammock.
(c) A flying machine.
(d) Nets, knives, sharkline and fishhooks.

10. 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) He will not be able to find shelter.
(c) Moana will not allow him food.
(d) Perhaps Moana was upset for having been cheated.

11. What does Mafatu begin fashioning?
(a) Weapons and other useful items.
(b) A canoe.
(c) A lean-to.
(d) A spit.

12. What does he notice as he begins ripping leaves from a banana tree?
(a) The fruit has been cut cleanly from the branch with a knife.
(b) Smoke from another island.
(c) The fruit is moldy.
(d) The fruit is missing.

13. What does he soon do?
(a) Reaches the summit of the hill.
(b) Finds fresh water.
(c) Climb to the top of the ladder.
(d) Climb to the top of a tree.

14. How does Mafatu fell a tree?
(a) By burning the base of the tree.
(b) By tying a rope to it and pulling on it.
(c) By climbing up it and leaning to the side.
(d) With an axe.

15. He has the skill and resources to build a net but cannot get out to the "distant reef" to cast the net without his canoe. What does this do to him?
(a) It irritates him.
(b) It further complicates the situation.
(c) It makes him excited about the challenge.
(d) It worries him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mafatu discover lying on the beach?

2. Where are fish hooks made from bone, coconut-shell bowls, an extra clothing garment made waterproof for wet weather, and a coil of sennit found?

3. What would he never again be called?

4. How does he feel now that his knife is finished?

5. How does Mafatu fall asleep?

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