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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.
(c) The captain will bribe the natives to search for him.
(d) The French will try to hunt him down.

2. What do the narrators hope to find if they follow the river at the bottom of the ravine?
(a) Friendly natives.
(b) Their shipmates.
(c) A valley with fruit.
(d) Weapons for hunting.

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

4. Where do the Typees live?
(a) In the French fort at Nukuheva.
(b) With the Nukuheva.
(c) In a valley neighboring the Happars.
(d) On an island near Nukuheva.

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. How do the girls in the village treat Tommo?
(a) They shun him.
(b) They tease him and run away when he tries to talk with them.
(c) They wash him in the stream twice a day.
(d) They rub him with oils after Kory-Kory bathes him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Fayaway and Tinor wear as decorations?

2. What is Mehevi's status among the Typees?

3. What has the narrator heard about the Happars?

4. Whom does Mehevi bring to Toby and Tommo?

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

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