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

2. 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 renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.
(c) The French will try to hunt him down.
(d) The savages will hunt him and sell him into slavery.

3. Why does the narrator run away from the Dolly?
(a) He wants to be alone.
(b) He considers the captain a tyrant.
(c) He was left ashore mistakenly.
(d) He falls in love with a native girl.

4. What do the narrator and Toby plan to subsist on on the island?
(a) Food stolen from the marketplace.
(b) Wild fruit.
(c) Food stolen from the ship.
(d) Food stolen from the natives.

5. What happens to the people the French threaten?
(a) They respond with gunfire.
(b) They refuse to take down the English flag.
(c) They are arrested by the French.
(d) They submit to the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and Toby grab on their way off the ship?

2. What did the French Admiral demand when he reached his next destination after Nukuheva?

3. Who causes a scene when they arrive on the narrator's ship?

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

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

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