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

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

3. How much experience of white men have the natives had?
(a) They have traveled with white men.
(b) They have traded with them for years.
(c) They have taken white men among them before.
(d) They have never observed them closely before.

4. How does Toby end up unconscious?
(a) He falls from a waterfall.
(b) He is shot by a French soldier.
(c) He eats something poisonous.
(d) He is hit by a Happar spear.

5. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?
(a) The savages will hunt him and sell him into slavery.
(b) The captain will bribe the natives to search for him.
(c) The French will try to hunt him down.
(d) The renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name do the natives give Tom?

2. Who comes to see Toby and Tommo after they wake up?

3. How do the girls in the village treat Tommo?

4. Describe the ravine the sailors follow.

5. Toward what land does the ship steer?

(see the answer key)

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