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

2. What do the narrator and Toby follow to the cliff?
(a) A road.
(b) The sound of drums.
(c) A river.
(d) A footpath.

3. What do the narrators hope to find if they follow the river at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) A valley with fruit.
(b) Weapons for hunting.
(c) Their shipmates.
(d) Friendly natives.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe the ravine the sailors follow.

2. When Toby and the narrator see a native boy and girl, what are the native children carrying?

3. What is the narrator's name in "Typee"?

4. What happens to the narrator's leg?

5. How comfortable is the hut the sailors build?

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