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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Typees respond to news of a boat in their bay?
(a) They reconnoiter the bay.
(b) They hide in the bush.
(c) They arm themselves.
(d) They gather goods to trade.

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

3. What name do the natives give Tom?
(a) Typee.
(b) Toby.
(c) Tommo.
(d) Mehevi.

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

5. What does the narrator use when he descends the waterfall?
(a) Tree bark for sandals.
(b) Hanging vines.
(c) Toby's help.
(d) A walking stick.

6. Since what year had the island of Nukuheva been known to the Americans, at the outset of the book?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1758.
(c) 1791.
(d) 1822.

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

8. What does Toby tell Tommo about the natives?
(a) That they are afraid of them.
(b) That they are trustworthy.
(c) That they are fickle.
(d) That they are loyal.

9. What causes Tommo intense pain in the Typee village?
(a) He cuts himself on a reed.
(b) He is tied up by the Typee warriors.
(c) The doctor hits his leg.
(d) He is hit in a fight to escape.

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

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

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

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

14. Who are Toby and Tommo surrounded by when they wake up in the Typee village?
(a) Young men.
(b) Old men.
(c) Young girls.
(d) Old women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?

2. How does Toby end up unconscious?

3. What happens to the narrator's leg?

4. How big is the island of Nukuheva?

5. How does Toby descend at the waterfall?

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