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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) When the fire has almost burned through the trunk of the tree.
(c) After the tree has fallen.
(d) As the tree is falling.

2. What does Mafatu wake up the next morning and remember?
(a) That Uri was injured.
(b) That Kivi never returned.
(c) The crazy events that led him to the beach on which he now lays.
(d) How his mother died.

3. What happens when Mafatu tries to catch his friend?
(a) He drops him.
(b) He is too late.
(c) He falls in too.
(d) He makes a net.

4. 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?
(a) In a hollow tree.
(b) Inside the house.
(c) Inside a bag.
(d) On the beach.

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

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

7. What does Mafatu do to the shark?
(a) He grabs him.
(b) He pushes on his gills.
(c) He stabs him in the belly.
(d) He taunts him.

8. 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 worries him.
(b) It irritates him.
(c) It further complicates the situation.
(d) It makes him excited about the challenge.

9. Why does Mafatu decide not to go to his lookout to check for the arrival of the eaters-of-men?
(a) It wasted too much of his time.
(b) He is too tired.
(c) He is afraid.
(d) It is scary.

10. Why is Mafatu not ready to find food?
(a) He is afraid of the island.
(b) He does not know where to look for food.
(c) He does not know how to catch food.
(d) He is not yet strong enough to climb one of the many coconut trees on the island.

11. What does he use to pull himself up the slope?
(a) A ladder.
(b) A tree.
(c) Roots.
(d) The hanging vines.

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

13. What have been recently burned?
(a) The trees around the clearing.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Piles of wood.
(d) Piles of bones.

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

15. What happens when a large wave tips the raft at a severe angle?
(a) Mafatu falls in the water.
(b) The fish traps fall in the water.
(c) Uri falls into the water.
(d) Kivi falls in the water.

Short Answer Questions

1. What frightens Mafatu?

2. 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?

3. How does he feel after the climb to the lookout?

4. What does he make out of coconut-tree fronds?

5. As he is looking at another island, what is he astonished to see?

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