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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. How long has it been since the narrator saw land, when the book opens?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Three months.

2. Who are the Typees?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Friends of the Happars.
(c) Cannibals.
(d) Friends of the Nukuheva.

3. What are the narrator and Toby stopped by when they desert?
(a) A river.
(b) Tall reeds.
(c) Hostile natives.
(d) Rocky cliffs.

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

5. Where does the narrator plan to go when he deserts his ship?
(a) To Tahiti.
(b) To the mountains.
(c) To Australia.
(d) To the harbor on the other side of the island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator run away from the Dolly?

2. Toward what land does the ship steer?

3. When do the narrator and Toby decide to desert?

4. What do the narrator and Toby plan to subsist on on the island?

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

(see the answer key)

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