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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the natives bring to the Dolly?
(a) Coconuts.
(b) Shrunken heads.
(c) Live birds.
(d) Food.

4. Where do Toby and the narrator follow the children to?
(a) The cliffs.
(b) A village.
(c) The beach.
(d) A native shelter.

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

6. Who or what approaches the Dolly when it reaches Nukuheva?
(a) A Spanish ship.
(b) A French ship.
(c) A deserted sailor.
(d) A drunken Englishman.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Who causes a scene when they arrive on the narrator's ship?
(a) The king and queen of Nukuheva.
(b) The captain of a French ship.
(c) Ambassadors from Nukuheva.
(d) Mutinied sailors.

14. What do the French threaten after Nukuheva?
(a) An American merchant settlement.
(b) An English missionary's house.
(c) A group of runaways.
(d) A native church.

15. What do the narrator and Toby grab on their way off the ship?
(a) Knives.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) Paper.
(d) Guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Toward what land does the ship steer?

2. What did the French Admiral demand when he reached his next destination after Nukuheva?

3. What does Kory-Kory do for Tommo?

4. Describe the interior of Nukuheva.

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

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