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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Taboos make people off-limits from others and what else?
(a) Free to travel widely.
(b) Protected.
(c) Miserable but wise.
(d) Condemned to be eaten.

2. When the Typees prepare for their feast, what do they make their pyramid out of?
(a) Firewood.
(b) Breadfruit.
(c) Calabashes.
(d) Reeds.

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

4. Where are the packages of pork put for everyone to eat during the feast?
(a) Along the stream
(b) In the Ti.
(c) Along the paths.
(d) In the trees.

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

6. What does Tommo use to make popguns for the Typee children?
(a) Wood salvaged from a shipwreck.
(b) Breadfruit shoots.
(c) Bones.
(d) Bamboo.

7. What are pi-pis used for?
(a) Foundations for houses.
(b) Drying salted fish.
(c) Sacred rituals.
(d) Mashing breadfruit.

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

9. How does Kory-Kory reassure Tommo?
(a) He tells him that he is part of the tribe now, and will never be eaten.
(b) He tells him that his bad leg prevents him from being eaten.
(c) He tells him that the Typee warriors were feasting on pig, not Happar warriors.
(d) He tells him that he is likely to be rescued soon.

10. What instrument do the young women play?
(a) A nasal flute.
(b) Stringed instruments like violins.
(c) Small drums.
(d) Tambourines.

11. What does Marnoo describe to Tommo and the others?
(a) The Happars' war preparations.
(b) The Americans' search for Toby and Tommo.
(c) The activities of the French.
(d) The escape of other Typee prisoners.

12. Why do the girls have to leave when Tommo asks for a canoe?
(a) They cannot swim.
(b) They do not want to be seen in the canoe.
(c) The canoe belongs to a powerful chief and they would be insulting him to get in it without him.
(d) The canoe is taboo.

13. What does Tommo find is in short supply on the island?
(a) Breadfruit.
(b) Salt.
(c) Wild boar.
(d) Gold.

14. Where is private property a Typee practice?
(a) In spouses.
(b) In personal possessions.
(c) In goods that come from the ocean.
(d) In real estate.

15. What is Tommo surprised not to find on the island?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Sharks.
(c) Crocodiles.
(d) Songbirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tommo disgusted by in how the Typees eat fish?

2. Whom does Tommo ask Mehevi to take on the canoe?

3. How do the women dress for the feast?

4. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?

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

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