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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, and 30, pp. 307-329.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it taboo for Tommo to touch?
(a) Certain feathers.
(b) Tappa cloth.
(c) Hunting implements.
(d) Tattooing materials.

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

3. How does Tommo describe the Typees' lifestyle?
(a) Contentious.
(b) Precarious.
(c) Migratory.
(d) Harmonious.

4. Describe the warrior's tattoos.
(a) He is tattooed all over his body with two stripes across his face.
(b) He is tattooed everywhere but his face.
(c) He is tattooed on his arms and legs.
(d) He is tattooed on his face with spiky designs.

5. What rumor does Tommo hear when he is at the Ti?
(a) That Toby has fled.
(b) That boats have come.
(c) That Happars have come.
(d) That Toby has died.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Toby tell Tommo about the natives?

2. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?

3. What about the appearance of the Typees does Tommo notice most?

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

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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