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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 the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?
(a) Sailors looking for him and Toby.
(b) A natives hunting party.
(c) An inhabited valley.
(d) A wild boar.

2. What does the narrator try to conceal from Toby?
(a) His hunger.
(b) His plan to return to the ship.
(c) His poor health.
(d) His fear of the natives.

3. What does Tommo notice about building practices?
(a) Houses are long communal dwellings that are not owned.
(b) Houses can be built in a day with communal labor.
(c) Houses are permanent structures passed in the family.
(d) Houses are moved continuously because they wear out so quickly.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the ravine's sides covered with, that make it dangerous going down and up?

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

4. What does Tommo say is women's work?

5. What does Tommo find is in short supply on the island?

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