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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7, and 8, pp. 58-82.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When do the narrator and Toby decide to desert?
(a) During shore leave.
(b) In the middle of the night.
(c) After the second watch.
(d) During the fight with the French.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the captain tell the sailors to stay near?

2. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?

3. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?

4. In what name are the French claiming Nukuheva?

5. How long has it been since the narrator saw land, when the book opens?

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