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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9, and 10, 83-108.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French Admiral demand when he reached his next destination after Nukuheva?
(a) Safe haven for his crew.
(b) Liberty for the natives.
(c) Money and treasure.
(d) Repairs for his ship.

2. What happens to the people the French threaten?
(a) They respond with gunfire.
(b) They submit to the French.
(c) They refuse to take down the English flag.
(d) They are arrested by the French.

3. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?
(a) 1791.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1758.

4. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?
(a) The savages will hunt him and sell him into slavery.
(b) The renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.
(c) The captain will bribe the natives to search for him.
(d) The French will try to hunt him down.

5. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?
(a) A palm tree.
(b) The water.
(c) Native hunters.
(d) Low bushes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the narrator heard about the Happars?

2. Who are the Happars?

3. What does the narrator use when he descends the waterfall?

4. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?

5. Describe the interior of Nukuheva.

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