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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the French Admiral demand when he reached his next destination after Nukuheva?
(a) Safe haven for his crew.
(b) Repairs for his ship.
(c) Money and treasure.
(d) Liberty for the natives.

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

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

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

5. What does Kory-Kory tell Toby and Tommo about the Happars?
(a) That they will sell them to the French.
(b) That they are cannibals.
(c) That they have been hired by the Americans to find the deserters.
(d) That they are murderers.

6. Where do the narrator and Toby arrive before sundown?
(a) In the Happar village.
(b) On the other side of the island.
(c) In the Typee village.
(d) At the highest point on the island.

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

8. Where do the sailors set up their hut?
(a) With the Happars.
(b) On the beach.
(c) At the mountaintop.
(d) At the bottom of a cliff.

9. What do the narrator and Toby find in their pockets when they have reached the mountain?
(a) Salted beef.
(b) Fire ants.
(c) Soggy biscuits.
(d) Nothing.

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

11. What do the Typees allow Toby to do?
(a) Get help from the French ships.
(b) Return to the American ship.
(c) Marry a Typee girl.
(d) Travel to the boundary of Happar territory.

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

13. What does the narrator try to conceal from Toby?
(a) His plan to return to the ship.
(b) His fear of the natives.
(c) His hunger.
(d) His poor health.

14. What has the narrator heard about the Happars?
(a) That they are friendly.
(b) That they will return them to the ship.
(c) That they are cannibals.
(d) That they are a powerful tribe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How big is the island of Nukuheva?

2. What is the Ti?

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

4. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?

5. How does Toby end up unconscious?

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