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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, pp. 225-230, Chapter 22, pp. 231-238, Chapter 23, pp. 239-247.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator's name in "Typee"?
(a) Tommo.
(b) Melville.
(c) Kory-Kory.
(d) Toby.

2. Why do the girls have to leave when Tommo asks for a canoe?
(a) The canoe is taboo.
(b) They do not want to be seen in the canoe.
(c) They cannot swim.
(d) The canoe belongs to a powerful chief and they would be insulting him to get in it without him.

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

4. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?
(a) That the natives are friendly.
(b) That there are no fruit trees.
(c) That the natives are hostile.
(d) That they are being followed.

5. Where do the sailors set up their hut?
(a) At the mountaintop.
(b) On the beach.
(c) With the Happars.
(d) At the bottom of a cliff.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Tommo ask Mehevi to take on the canoe?

3. Where do the narrator and Toby arrive before sundown?

4. What do Fayaway and Tinor wear as decorations?

5. Where did the French Admiral sail for after Nukuheva?

(see the answer key)

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