Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life [Edited by George Woodcock] Test | Final Test - Easy

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Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life [Edited by George Woodcock] Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Moa Artua answer questions?
(a) He interprets the flight of birds.
(b) He is beaten and then speaks through the priest.
(c) He goes into a trance and then speaks.
(d) He interprets the innards of boar and fish.

3. What does Kory-Kory bring to Tommo to add variety to his diet?
(a) Boar.
(b) Pork.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) Wild birds.

4. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?
(a) Sensory delights.
(b) Good food and beautiful women.
(c) Justice and peace.
(d) Eternal grace.

5. What does Tommo notice about the insects in Typee?
(a) Some walking sticks are almost as big as he is.
(b) The mosquitoes carry deadly diseases.
(c) There are no mosquitoes.
(d) The ants make painful bites.

6. From what do the Typees make cloth?
(a) Fish skin.
(b) The skins of deer and boar.
(c) Seaweed.
(d) The under bark of the cloth tree.

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

8. What does Tommo try to engage in with the natives?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Wrestling.
(c) Boxing.
(d) Arm-wrestling.

9. What does Tommo notice about building practices?
(a) Houses are moved continuously because they wear out so quickly.
(b) Houses are long communal dwellings that are not owned.
(c) Houses can be built in a day with communal labor.
(d) Houses are permanent structures passed in the family.

10. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?
(a) Men have as many wives as they like.
(b) No one has to do any work.
(c) People have private property.
(d) People pick fruit without asking anyone's permission.

11. What does Tommo say is women's work?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Light occupations.
(c) Harvesting breadfruit.
(d) Bathing and frolicking.

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

13. Tommo sees a mausoleum. How is it decorated?
(a) The chief is depicted in a warlike stance.
(b) The chief is placed upright in his grave.
(c) The chief is mummified.
(d) The deceased chief's effigy is in a canoe.

14. What does Kolory carry?
(a) A carving of a war canoe.
(b) A club with a human skull.
(c) A spear with a carved idol.
(d) A Frenchman's helmet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of coconuts do the natives prefer?

2. What does Tommo see in earthen ovens when the Typees are preparing their feast?

3. What is amar made of?

4. What is it that amazes Tommo about the Stonehenge-like site?

5. What is Tommo's experience of the mineral spring water?

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