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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the boy do when he flings himself onto the floor of the canoe?
(a) He buries his face in his arms, crying.
(b) He cuts his arm.
(c) He screams.
(d) He hugs Uri.

2. Who emerges from the water, sopping wet?
(a) Kivi.
(b) His father.
(c) Kana.
(d) Uri.

3. Who does Mafatu begin to follow?
(a) Kana.
(b) Uri.
(c) Kivi.
(d) His father.

4. Why does Mafatu's mother take him out to the barrier reef?
(a) To swim through the coral.
(b) To look for sea urchins.
(c) To catch fish.
(d) To look for his father.

5. What is Mafatu amazed and relieved to discover?
(a) No whales were around him.
(b) The hail lasted only a moment.
(c) He has survived.
(d) The storm was not very strong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sky cast upon the tiny canoe?

2. What else taunts him?

3. What does Mafatu discover when he surveys the situation?

4. Against what do the fishermen warn her?

5. Soon, what comes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mafatu's most significant shame?

2. How does Mafatu feel when he sees land in the distance?

3. What happens to Mafatu and his companions during the second major storm?

4. What happens during the first major storm?

5. What has resulted because of Mafatu's fear?

6. How does Chapter 2 end?

7. What happens that foreshadows a larger storm?

8. What does Mafatu resolve to do this year?

9. What has happened when Mafatu has attempted to overcome his fear?

10. What happens after the storm? To what does Mafatu awaken?

(see the answer keys)

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