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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of meat do Toby and Tommo eat with the Typees?
(a) Roast hog.
(b) Human flesh.
(c) Breadfruit.
(d) Fish.

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

4. Describe the ravine the sailors follow.
(a) Narrow.
(b) Rocky.
(c) Broad.
(d) Sparsely covered with vegetation.

5. How does Toby plan to help Tommo?
(a) By freeing Tommo from Kory-Kory.
(b) By bringing help from the French ships.
(c) By ransoming Tommo from Mehevi.
(d) By finding Tommo a wife.

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

7. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?
(a) A palm tree.
(b) Low bushes.
(c) Native hunters.
(d) The water.

8. What does Mehevi want information about from Toby and Tommo?
(a) America's strength relative to France.
(b) The Happar villages.
(c) The French invasion force.
(d) American women.

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

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

11. What has the narrator heard about the Happars?
(a) That they will return them to the ship.
(b) That they are a powerful tribe.
(c) That they are friendly.
(d) That they are cannibals.

12. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?
(a) The ship sprung a leak.
(b) The ship was badly damaged in a storm.
(c) The last chicken was killed which the captain ate.
(d) The sailors mutinied.

13. What course of action does Toby urge for himself and Tommo?
(a) Return to the ships.
(b) Escape.
(c) Marry Typee girls.
(d) Wage battle, with the Typees, against the Happars.

14. Describe the interior of Nukuheva.
(a) Mountainous.
(b) A swamp.
(c) An arid plain.
(d) A large lake.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has it been since the narrator saw land, when the book opens?

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

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

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

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

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