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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 27and 28, pp. 293-306.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tommo compare to the Typees' cannibalism?
(a) White men's tortures.
(b) White men's diseases.
(c) White men's religion.
(d) White men's warfare.

2. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?
(a) That they are being followed.
(b) That there are no fruit trees.
(c) That the natives are friendly.
(d) That the natives are hostile.

3. What does Narmonee use for shaving his head?
(a) A shark tooth.
(b) A sharpened stone.
(c) A piece of metal salvaged from a ship.
(d) A sharpened bone.

4. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?
(a) People pick fruit without asking anyone's permission.
(b) Men have as many wives as they like.
(c) No one has to do any work.
(d) People have private property.

5. Why does Tommo say the natives are hostile to Europeans?
(a) Because they feel superior to them.
(b) Because they have been attacked by them.
(c) Because of their superiority in technology.
(d) Because there are so many of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tommo compare the natives' lives with Europeans'?

2. What technical knowledge of Tommo's do the Typees express interest in?

3. What does the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?

4. On whom does Tommo say the Typees practice cannibalism?

5. What do Toby and the narrator know about the Typees?

(see the answer key)

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