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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. Toward what land does the ship steer?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Australia.
(c) Borneo.
(d) The Marquesas Islands.

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

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

4. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?
(a) Good weather.
(b) Approaching land.
(c) Other shipping.
(d) Whales.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?

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

3. What does the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?

4. In what name are the French claiming Nukuheva?

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

(see the answer key)

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