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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 13 and 14, pp. pp. 141-163.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the ravine's sides covered with, that make it dangerous going down and up?
(a) Natives on the lookout.
(b) Sailors from their ship.
(c) Reeds.
(d) Totems.

2. How high is the waterfall Toby and the narrator encounter?
(a) Five hundred feet.
(b) A hundred fifty feet.
(c) Two hundred feet.
(d) A hundred feet.

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

4. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?
(a) Lazy.
(b) Shy.
(c) Passionate.
(d) Easy-going.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes Tommo intense pain in the Typee village?

2. What is the Ti?

3. What do Toby and the narrator see when they reach the valley at the bottom of the second waterfall?

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

5. How long does the narrator expect the whaling voyage could last if he had stayed aboard?

(see the answer key)

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