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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened when he had taken an item from a sacred place?
(a) Drumming.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Lightning and thunder.
(d) A strong wind blew.

2. What does Mafatu begin to take care of?
(a) Finding food.
(b) Building his canoe.
(c) Taking care of Uri.
(d) The other myriad tasks that need doing.

3. What startles Mafatu?
(a) Uri's barking.
(b) A wild boar crashing through the bushes.
(c) Kivi's call.
(d) A drumming sound.

4. What has always scared him away when he went out to the reef to set his traps?
(a) The murky water.
(b) The current.
(c) The hammerhead shark.
(d) The fish.

5. How does Mafatu feel when the construction of a new canoe is complete?
(a) Excited to drop the craft in the water.
(b) Worn out.
(c) Sad.
(d) Anxious.

6. He hated doing these tasks back in Hikueru. How does he feel now?
(a) He wishes he were better at them.
(b) He wishes he had practiced them more at home.
(c) He is grateful for the skills now.
(d) He still hates them.

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

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

9. How does Mafatu fall asleep?
(a) Eventually.
(b) Quckly.
(c) Full of his own confidence.
(d) Fitfully.

10. 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.

11. How does he feel after the climb to the lookout?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Thrilled.
(c) His injured leg hurts.
(d) Anxious.

12. What would he never again be called?
(a) A member of his tribe.
(b) His father's son.
(c) Mafatu.
(d) An unskilled boy.

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

14. Why does Mafatu build up a large fire?
(a) So that he can heat some stones.
(b) To burn his trash.
(c) So others will see him.
(d) He is cold.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the pyramid topped by a massive figure?

2. What have been recently burned?

3. To where does he head?

4. How does he feel as he heads out to the reef?

5. 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?

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