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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What frightens Mafatu?
(a) To see the shark heading right for his dog.
(b) The current.
(c) The dark water.
(d) The waves.

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

5. What is Mafatu's reaction when the water begins to get turbulent?
(a) He is not scared anymore.
(b) He becomes frightened.
(c) He looks for Uri.
(d) He looks for sharks.

6. What has rooted Mafatu to the ground?
(a) Fear.
(b) A branch.
(c) Quick sand.
(d) Uri's growl.

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

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

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

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

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

12. How does he move toward the idol?
(a) He glides toward it.
(b) He circles it.
(c) He runs toward it.
(d) He inches toward it.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does he praise for bringing him safely to this island and for giving him courage?

2. How has Majatu conquered another fear when saving his dog?

3. What does he think about the skills he had acquired back home?

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

5. Why does Mafatu decide not to go to his lookout to check for the arrival of the eaters-of-men?

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