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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 does the boy do when he flings himself onto the floor of the canoe?

2. What happens just as suddenly?

3. What is it time for the boys to do?

4. What else taunts him?

5. Into what does he throw "half a dozen green drinking nuts and his fish spear?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mafatu think about his father?

2. How does Chapter 2 end?

3. What happens during the first major storm?

4. How is Mafatu treated?

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

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

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

8. What is Mafatu's most significant shame?

9. What does Mafatu realize after the storm has passed?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mafatu is very self-sufficient.

Part 1) How is he self-sufficient? What can one learn about Mafatu's culture through his self-sufficiency?

Part 2) How does this new independence and knowledge both help and hurt him?

Part 3) Do you believe that people in our modern culture are self-sufficient? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Mafatu prays to the Goddess of the Fishermen.

Part 1) Who is this goddess? Why does he pray to this goddess?

Part 2) Does the goddess help him? Why or why not?

Part 3) Compare and contrast Mafatu behavior in times of trouble and need to your behavior.

Essay Topic 3

Mafatu's story is timeless.

Part 1) Why is it timeless?

Part 2) What can various cultures around the world learn from this story?

Part 3) How is this story significant to you?

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