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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 can he use to make a raft?
(a) A tree.
(b) Bamboo.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Rubber.

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

3. Who helps Mafatu drag the bones down the beach?
(a) Kana.
(b) Maui.
(c) Kivi.
(d) Uri.

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

5. How does he feel after building a fire?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Content and worn out from the effort.
(c) Warm.
(d) Worried.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does he think about again?

2. What is he able to make?

3. What does the boy plan to wait until the next day to do?

4. What does he begin to think about killing?

5. What startles Mafatu?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mafatu prepare the pig?

2. To what thoughts does the sighting of the wild boar lead?

3. What has Mafatu done by saving his dog?

4. What does the spearhead symbolize?

5. How does Mafatu act like a child?

6. What does Mafatu find in the clearing?

7. Why does Mafatu decide not to go to his lookout?

8. How does Mafatu go about making a raft? Why is the raft important?

9. How does Mafatu react when the water becomes turbulent? Why does he react this way?

10. What does Mafatu spot at the sacred platform? Why does he need it?

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