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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11, and 12, pp. 109-140.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Toby and the narrator eat at the celebration?
(a) Poee-poee.
(b) Roast boar.
(c) Porridge.
(d) Human flesh.

3. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1822.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How high is the waterfall Toby and the narrator encounter?

2. Who are the Happars?

3. Where does the narrator plan to go when he deserts his ship?

4. Where do Toby and the narrator follow the children to?

5. What does Mehevi want information about from Toby and Tommo?

(see the answer key)

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