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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How big is a breadfruit?
(a) Lime-sized.
(b) Melon-sized.
(c) Lemon-sized.
(d) Watermelon-sized.
2. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?
(a) Men have as many wives as they like.
(b) People have private property.
(c) No one has to do any work.
(d) People pick fruit without asking anyone's permission.
3. 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.
4. How do the women dress for the feast?
(a) They wear only loincloths, with flowers in their hair.
(b) They wear elaborate batik skirts.
(c) They wear robes of feathers and flowers.
(d) In tappa skirts, wrapped in flowers.
5. What does Tommo see in earthen ovens when the Typees are preparing their feast?
(a) Tappa.
(b) Fish.
(c) Poee-poee packets.
(d) Reeds.
6. How does Tommo describe the sound made by the young women's instruments?
(a) Syncopated.
(b) Harsh.
(c) Pleasing.
(d) Grating.
7. Who is Moa Artua?
(a) The head chieftain of the Typees.
(b) The medicine man of the Typees.
(c) The original Typee founder.
(d) The head god of the Typees.
8. What does Narmonee use for shaving his head?
(a) A sharpened stone.
(b) A piece of metal salvaged from a ship.
(c) A sharpened bone.
(d) A shark tooth.
9. What is Tommo disgusted by in how the Typees eat fish?
(a) They mash them up with breadfruit.
(b) They eat them raw.
(c) They eat the fish in seaweed.
(d) They eat the little fish they find in the bigger fishes' stomachs.
10. How does Moa Artua answer questions?
(a) He interprets the innards of boar and fish.
(b) He interprets the flight of birds.
(c) He goes into a trance and then speaks.
(d) He is beaten and then speaks through the priest.
11. Where is there an ancient, Stonehenge-like site?
(a) In the Happar territory.
(b) Near the shore.
(c) By the stream.
(d) Near the mountains.
12. What did the natives do to the captain who shot birds in the Bay of Tior, in Tommo's recollection?
(a) They killed all the birds themselves so he would not have any hunting.
(b) They could not kill him, but they denied him water and forced him to go away.
(c) They helped him get all the birds he wanted then made him leave.
(d) They killed him and ate him.
13. What is it taboo for Tommo to touch?
(a) Tattooing materials.
(b) Hunting implements.
(c) Tappa cloth.
(d) Certain feathers.
14. How does Tommo compare the natives' lives with Europeans'?
(a) He thinks they suffer for their ignorance.
(b) He thinks they have it easier.
(c) He thinks they are filthy and miserable in their poverty.
(d) He thinks they have more dignity, but less freedom.
15. What does Tommo find is in short supply on the island?
(a) Gold.
(b) Salt.
(c) Wild boar.
(d) Breadfruit.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Kolory carry?
2. What does Tommo say is women's work?
3. What do the natives keep asking Tommo to do?
4. Where is private property a Typee practice?
5. Where are the packages of pork put for everyone to eat during the feast?
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