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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Toby end up unconscious?
(a) He eats something poisonous.
(b) He is hit by a Happar spear.
(c) He is shot by a French soldier.
(d) He falls from a waterfall.

3. How is the news of a boat in the bay carried to all the Typees?
(a) A signal flag.
(b) A vocal telegraph.
(c) A signal fire.
(d) A runner.

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

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

6. What do the narrator and Toby plan to subsist on on the island?
(a) Food stolen from the marketplace.
(b) Food stolen from the natives.
(c) Food stolen from the ship.
(d) Wild fruit.

7. How does Tommo get around the Typee village?
(a) Kory-Kory carries him.
(b) He walks.
(c) He is carried on a litter.
(d) He is restricted and does not see much of the village.

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

9. How does Toby descend at the waterfall?
(a) He falls.
(b) By holding vines.
(c) He dives.
(d) He finds a path.

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

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

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

13. What does the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?
(a) A wild boar.
(b) An inhabited valley.
(c) A natives hunting party.
(d) Sailors looking for him and Toby.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the narrator heard about the Happars?

2. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?

3. When do the narrator and Toby decide to desert?

4. What happens to the narrator's leg?

5. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?

(see the answer keys)

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