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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. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?
(a) Approaching land.
(b) Other shipping.
(c) Whales.
(d) Good weather.

2. What do the French threaten after Nukuheva?
(a) An American merchant settlement.
(b) A native church.
(c) A group of runaways.
(d) An English missionary's house.

3. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?
(a) The sailors mutinied.
(b) The ship was badly damaged in a storm.
(c) The ship sprung a leak.
(d) The last chicken was killed which the captain ate.

4. Toward what land does the ship steer?
(a) The Marquesas Islands.
(b) Borneo.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Australia.

5. Who or what approaches the Dolly when it reaches Nukuheva?
(a) A Spanish ship.
(b) A deserted sailor.
(c) A drunken Englishman.
(d) A French ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much experience of white men have the natives had?

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

3. Where do the narrator and Toby arrive before sundown?

4. What are the narrator and Toby stopped by when they desert?

5. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?

(see the answer key)

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