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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. From what is Mafatu getting no relief?

2. What does Mafatu recall for the reader?

3. What wakes Mafatu at midnight?

4. Who is the only person who has ever been nice to the outcast boy?

5. What has Mafatu resolved to do this year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mafatu treated?

2. Where does Mafatu head?

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

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

5. What does Mafatu describe at the beginning of the chapter?

6. What role does Kivi play in Mafatu's plans?

7. What is Mafatu left wondering years later?

8. What does Mafatu resolve to do this year?

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

10. What happens during the first major storm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mafatu resolves to overcome his fears.

Part 1) How does his resolve show maturity? How does his resolve also show a childlike dependency?

Part 2) Does he overcome his fears? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 3) What fears have you overcome? Compare and contrast your experience with that of Mafatu.

Essay Topic 2

Mafatu wants to make a boar's tooth necklace.

Part 1) Why?

Part 2) What makes him decide to do this?

Part 3) What is the reaction of his tribe when they see it? Why do they react this way?

Part 4) What in our culture would cause others to react in a similar way as Mafatu's tribe? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Mafatu endures many struggles during his journey.

Part 1) How does he struggle on the canoe? How does he overcome these struggles?

Part 2) How doe she struggle on the island? How does he overcome these struggles?

Part 3) How do these trials and tribulations change his character?

Part 4) Could he have made these personal changes without going on this adventure? Why or why not?

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