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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who comes to see Toby and Tommo after they wake up?
(a) Groups of Happars.
(b) Groups of male natives.
(c) Groups of children.
(d) Groups of female natives.

3. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

4. What is Mehevi's status among the Typees?
(a) Minor chieftain.
(b) Chief.
(c) Medicine man.
(d) Young warrior.

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

6. How is the news of a boat in the bay carried to all the Typees?
(a) A runner.
(b) A signal fire.
(c) A signal flag.
(d) A vocal telegraph.

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

8. How long does the narrator expect the whaling voyage could last if he had stayed aboard?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three years.
(c) Ten years.
(d) Five years.

9. In what name are the French claiming Nukuheva?
(a) Progress.
(b) Liberty.
(c) Equality.
(d) Civilization.

10. 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.

11. What do Fayaway and Tinor wear as decorations?
(a) Flower necklaces.
(b) Wooden headdresses.
(c) Fish tails.
(d) Bone piercings.

12. Where do Toby and the narrator follow the children to?
(a) The cliffs.
(b) A native shelter.
(c) A village.
(d) The beach.

13. Where does the captain tell the sailors to stay near?
(a) The French military station.
(b) The beach.
(c) The harbor.
(d) The marketplace.

14. What is the Ti?
(a) A building where the Typees meet.
(b) Grounds where rituals are performed.
(c) The center of the Typee village.
(d) The stream where Tommo washes.

15. Where did the French Admiral sail for after Nukuheva?
(a) Tahiti.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Australia.
(d) Borneo.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How comfortable is the hut the sailors build?

3. What do the narrator and Toby use to surpass the obstacle?

4. Why does the narrator run away from the Dolly?

5. Who are Toby and Tommo surrounded by when they wake up in the Typee village?

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