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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18, 19 and 20, pp. 191-224.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the narrator and Toby find in their pockets when they have reached the mountain?
(a) Fire ants.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Soggy biscuits.
(d) Salted beef.

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

3. How much experience of white men have the natives had?
(a) They have traveled with white men.
(b) They have never observed them closely before.
(c) They have taken white men among them before.
(d) They have traded with them for years.

4. How do the girls in the village treat Tommo?
(a) They wash him in the stream twice a day.
(b) They tease him and run away when he tries to talk with them.
(c) They rub him with oils after Kory-Kory bathes him.
(d) They shun him.

5. Why do the girls have to leave when Tommo asks for a canoe?
(a) They cannot swim.
(b) The canoe belongs to a powerful chief and they would be insulting him to get in it without him.
(c) The canoe is taboo.
(d) They do not want to be seen in the canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Typees respond to news of a boat in their bay?

2. What happens to the narrator's leg?

3. What do the French threaten after Nukuheva?

4. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?

5. What does Marheyo make with Tommo's shoes?

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