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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.

4. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?
(a) Shy.
(b) Lazy.
(c) Easy-going.
(d) Passionate.

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

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

7. What are the ravine's sides covered with, that make it dangerous going down and up?
(a) Sailors from their ship.
(b) Reeds.
(c) Totems.
(d) Natives on the lookout.

8. How high is the waterfall Toby and the narrator encounter?
(a) Five hundred feet.
(b) Two hundred feet.
(c) A hundred feet.
(d) A hundred fifty feet.

9. When do the narrator and Toby decide to desert?
(a) After the second watch.
(b) In the middle of the night.
(c) During the fight with the French.
(d) During shore leave.

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

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

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

13. 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.

14. How big is the island of Nukuheva?
(a) 12 miles by 8 miles.
(b) 5 miles by 2 miles.
(c) 2 miles by 1 mile.
(d) 20 miles by 20 miles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the news of a boat in the bay carried to all the Typees?

2. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?

3. Describe the ravine the sailors follow.

4. What is the Ti?

5. How do Toby and the narrator descend the second waterfall?

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