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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tommo believe are in the packages the Typees bring back with them after a skirmish with the Happars?
(a) Trophies.
(b) Happar bodies.
(c) Captive Happar warriors.
(d) Happar wives.

2. Who is Moa Artua?
(a) The original Typee founder.
(b) The head chieftain of the Typees.
(c) The head god of the Typees.
(d) The medicine man of the Typees.

3. What is a synonym for taboo?
(a) Special.
(b) Unique.
(c) Exceptional.
(d) Forbidden.

4. What about the appearance of the Typees does Tommo notice most?
(a) Their teeth are white.
(b) They are all very tall.
(c) Their features are very fine.
(d) Their skin is beautifully smooth and tan.

5. What do people own individually?
(a) Their labor.
(b) Their spouses and children.
(c) Their pi-pi.
(d) Their fruit trees.

6. How old is Marnoo?
(a) 72.
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 18.

7. How big is a breadfruit?
(a) Lemon-sized.
(b) Melon-sized.
(c) Lime-sized.
(d) Watermelon-sized.

8. What does Tommo see in earthen ovens when the Typees are preparing their feast?
(a) Fish.
(b) Tappa.
(c) Poee-poee packets.
(d) Reeds.

9. What rumor does Tommo hear when he is at the Ti?
(a) That Toby has died.
(b) That boats have come.
(c) That Toby has fled.
(d) That Happars have come.

10. What is amar made of?
(a) Raw breadfruit.
(b) Roasted seaweed.
(c) Fermented breadfruit mash.
(d) Mashed up mangoes.

11. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?
(a) Five-year-old children 100 feet up in trees.
(b) Five-year-old children walking on fire.
(c) Five-year-old children swimming with sharks.
(d) Five-year-old children eating human flesh.

12. Whom does Tommo ask Mehevi to take on the canoe?
(a) Toby.
(b) Tinor.
(c) Fayaway.
(d) Kory-Kory.

13. Where was Captain Cook supposed to have been cannibalized?
(a) The Sandwich Islands.
(b) Typee Bay.
(c) The Marquesas.
(d) Nukuheva.

14. How does Tommo describe the sound made by the young women's instruments?
(a) Grating.
(b) Syncopated.
(c) Harsh.
(d) Pleasing.

15. What does Tommo see when he comes back from the Ti one day?
(a) Three shrunken heads.
(b) Happar warriors.
(c) Old women dancing.
(d) The tattoo artist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tommo use to make popguns for the Typee children?

2. What does Tommo say is women's work?

3. To whom does Tommo compare the appearance of the Typees favorably?

4. What do children use to climb coconut trees?

5. What do the women use to lighten and soften their skin?

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