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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What do the narrator and Toby follow to the cliff?
(a) A footpath.
(b) A river.
(c) A road.
(d) The sound of drums.

8. 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.

9. What do Toby and the narrator eat at the celebration?
(a) Human flesh.
(b) Porridge.
(c) Poee-poee.
(d) Roast boar.

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

11. How long has it been since the narrator saw land, when the book opens?
(a) Two years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six months.

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

13. What do the French put ashore at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) A hundred soldiers.
(b) Captives from American ships.
(c) Natives returning home.
(d) Mutinous sailors.

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

15. Describe the warrior's tattoos.
(a) He is tattooed all over his body with two stripes across his face.
(b) He is tattooed on his face with spiky designs.
(c) He is tattooed on his arms and legs.
(d) He is tattooed everywhere but his face.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the narrator and Toby stopped by when they desert?

2. How do Toby and the narrator descend the second waterfall?

3. Where does the captain tell the sailors to stay near?

4. What do Toby and the narrator see when they reach the valley at the bottom of the second waterfall?

5. How does Toby end up unconscious?

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