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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What wakes Mafatu at midnight?

2. Against what do the fishermen warn her?

3. Years later, what is Mafatu left wondering?

4. How does Mafatu feel about the sea?

5. What happens to the tiny canoe?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens after Mafatu and his mother are washed ashore?

3. What does Mafatu resolve to do this year?

4. Where does Mafatu head?

5. What does Mafatu think about his father?

6. How does Mafatu and his mother end up in danger?

7. How does Chapter 2 end?

8. What does Mafatu realize that causes him to be gripped by terror? How does he react?

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

10. What happens during the first major storm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mafatu learned many skills when living in Hikueru.

Part 1) What skills does he have? How had he thought about these skills when he had been at home?

Part 2) What does he think of these skills now? Why?

Part 3) How do these skills help build Mafatu's self-esteem?

Essay Topic 2

While on the island, Mafatu becomes fearless.

Part 1) How? What does this fearlessness do to his sense of reason?

Part 2) What does this fearlessness keep him from doing? What does this foreshadow?

Part 3) Describe a time when you have felt fearless. How did it affect your decision-making? How did it affect your relationship with others?

Essay Topic 3

There is a glimmer of Mafatu's moving toward self-sufficiency and independence.

Part 1) When does this first appear? How does his self-sufficiency and independence grow?

Part 2) How does his new sense of self guide him in the choices he makes?

Part 3) What does he learn about self-sufficiency and independence? Is it always good?

Part 4) Why or why not? How is this relevant in your own life?

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