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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 5, and 6, pp. 42-57.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the French put ashore at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Mutinous sailors.
(b) A hundred soldiers.
(c) Natives returning home.
(d) Captives from American ships.

4. On what kind of ship is the narrator sailing?
(a) A warship.
(b) A whaling ship.
(c) A pleasure yacht.
(d) A merchant ship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?

2. In what name are the French claiming Nukuheva?

3. What do the natives bring to the Dolly?

4. Who are the Happars?

5. Describe the interior of Nukuheva.

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