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

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

3. Describe the interior of Nukuheva.
(a) A swamp.
(b) An arid plain.
(c) A large lake.
(d) Mountainous.

4. How comfortable is the hut the sailors build?
(a) It is filled with ants and lizards.
(b) It cannot keep out the rain.
(c) Its floor is rocky and uneven.
(d) It is snug and warm.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Toby and the narrator know about the Typees?

3. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?

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

5. Who are the Happars?

(see the answer key)

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