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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the narrator and Toby use to surpass the obstacle?
(a) Ropes.
(b) Guns.
(c) Knives.
(d) Stealth.

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

4. How comfortable is the hut the sailors build?
(a) It is snug and warm.
(b) It cannot keep out the rain.
(c) It is filled with ants and lizards.
(d) Its floor is rocky and uneven.

5. What happens to the narrator's leg?
(a) It is struck by a native's hunting dart.
(b) He cuts it badly.
(c) It swells up.
(d) It is caught in some rocks.

6. What prevents Tommo from joining Toby's plan?
(a) Mehevi's surveillance.
(b) His marriage to a Typee girl.
(c) His affection for Kory-Kory.
(d) His lame leg.

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

8. What do the French want to demonstrate to the natives at Nukuheva?
(a) Their wealth.
(b) Their power.
(c) Their desire to trade.
(d) Their compassion.

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

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

11. Under what condition will Kory-Kory allow Toby to go to the shore to meet the boat?
(a) He allows himself to be tied to Kory-Kory.
(b) He leaves his possessions.
(c) He promises not to run off.
(d) Tommo stays behind.

12. What does Tommo think is his and Toby's only chance for escape?
(a) The sea.
(b) The French.
(c) The mountains.
(d) The Happars.

13. On what kind of ship is the narrator sailing?
(a) A pleasure yacht.
(b) A whaling ship.
(c) A warship.
(d) A merchant ship.

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

15. Who are the Happars?
(a) Friends of the Americans.
(b) Friends of the Typees.
(c) Friends of the English.
(d) Friends of the Nukuheva.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?

2. What do the Typees allow Toby to do?

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

4. What do the narrator and Toby follow to the cliff?

5. What does Kory-Kory do for Tommo?

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