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

2. How has Majatu conquered another fear when saving his dog?
(a) He jumped in the water.
(b) He used a net.
(c) He killed the shark.
(d) He used a knife.

3. What does the boy plan to wait until the next day to do?
(a) Continue the process.
(b) Think about his father.
(c) Hunt for food.
(d) Look for cannibals.

4. What does he think about the skills he had acquired back home?
(a) They help a little.
(b) They are proving useful now.
(c) They are a waste.
(d) They need to be improved.

5. What does he wonder about this island?
(a) If he will ever escape it.
(b) If there are animals on this island.
(c) If this is where they offered their sacrifices.
(d) Where he should build his home.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does he move toward the idol?

2. Who helps Mafatu drag the bones down the beach?

3. How does he fashion a fish trap?

4. 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?

5. What does Mafatu wake up the next morning and remember?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mafatu resolve to do each day?

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

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

4. How does Mafatu push away thoughts of home and his father?

5. What does Mafatu remember and believe when he wakes up the next morning?

6. Why does Mafatu go after his knife?

7. What does Mafatu find in the clearing?

8. What does Mafatu do when he sees the whale?

9. What are the first steps in making a canoe in Mafatu's culture?

10. What does Mafatu do when his canoe is complete?

(see the answer keys)

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