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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?
(a) The French will try to hunt him down.
(b) The savages will hunt him and sell him into slavery.
(c) The captain will bribe the natives to search for him.
(d) The renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.

4. What does Kory-Kory do for Tommo?
(a) He gets him a doctor.
(b) He heals his leg.
(c) He supervises his recuperation.
(d) He brings him food.

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

6. 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.

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

8. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?
(a) That they are being followed.
(b) That the natives are hostile.
(c) That there are no fruit trees.
(d) That the natives are friendly.

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

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. How do Toby and the narrator descend the second waterfall?
(a) By a path.
(b) They climb down the cliff.
(c) They jump into the water.
(d) By hanging vines.

15. Who are the Happars?
(a) Friends of the Americans.
(b) Friends of the Nukuheva.
(c) Friends of the Typees.
(d) Friends of the English.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Fayaway and Tinor wear as decorations?

2. On what kind of ship is the narrator sailing?

3. What does Kory-Kory tell Toby and Tommo about the Happars?

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

5. What kind of meat do Toby and Tommo eat with the Typees?

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