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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. How long does the narrator expect the whaling voyage could last if he had stayed aboard?
(a) Six months.
(b) Five years.
(c) Three years.
(d) Ten years.

2. What do the French want to demonstrate to the natives at Nukuheva?
(a) Their wealth.
(b) Their desire to trade.
(c) Their power.
(d) Their compassion.

3. Where do the Typees live?
(a) In a valley neighboring the Happars.
(b) With the Nukuheva.
(c) In the French fort at Nukuheva.
(d) On an island near Nukuheva.

4. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?
(a) Shy.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Easy-going.

5. 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 last chicken was killed which the captain ate.
(d) The ship sprung a leak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and Toby find in their pockets when they have reached the mountain?

2. What do Toby and the narrator eat at the celebration?

3. Where do Toby and the narrator follow the children to?

4. What do the French put ashore at the beginning of Chapter 3?

5. How long has it been since the narrator saw land, when the book opens?

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