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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. How do the following days find Mafatu?

2. He hated doing these tasks back in Hikueru. How does he feel now?

3. Who used to slide down a lava slide in banana leaves?

4. What leads toward the sea and to a large clearing?

5. What does Mafatu now realize about himself?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mafatu find in the clearing?

2. How does Mafatu act like a child?

3. What does Mafatu resolve to do each day?

4. What does the spearhead symbolize?

5. Why does Mafatu become frightened?

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

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

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

9. What is his victory?

10. How does Mafatu prepare the pig?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mafatu chooses to leave before the others wake.

Part 1) Why does he do this? What does he wonder about his tribe?

Part 2) What do you think were the reactions of the tribe? Use the text to support your response.

Part 3) How would your family react if they woke up one morning and you were gone? Compare and contrast their reaction to what you believe might be Mafatu's tribe's reaction.

Essay Topic 2

After arriving on the island, Mafatu finds a spearhead.

Part 1) Why does he take it? How is taking the spearhead a victory?

Part 2) What does the spearhead symbolize?

Part 3) To what does this victory lead? How does this one event change his life forever?

Part 4) Describe an event that had a large impact on your life.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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