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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 are the ravine's sides covered with, that make it dangerous going down and up?
(a) Totems.
(b) Sailors from their ship.
(c) Natives on the lookout.
(d) Reeds.

2. What happens to the narrator's leg?
(a) He cuts it badly.
(b) It is struck by a native's hunting dart.
(c) It swells up.
(d) It is caught in some rocks.

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

4. What does Tommo say is women's work?
(a) Bathing and frolicking.
(b) Harvesting breadfruit.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Light occupations.

5. How does Tommo compare the natives' lives with Europeans'?
(a) He thinks they have it easier.
(b) He thinks they suffer for their ignorance.
(c) He thinks they are filthy and miserable in their poverty.
(d) He thinks they have more dignity, but less freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is breadfruit prepared?

2. What does Tommo compare to the Typees' cannibalism?

3. What do the narrators hope to find if they follow the river at the bottom of the ravine?

4. Where is private property a Typee practice?

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

(see the answer key)

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