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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Tommo say the natives are hostile to Europeans?
(a) Because they feel superior to them.
(b) Because they have been attacked by them.
(c) Because there are so many of them.
(d) Because of their superiority in technology.

2. What is the benefit of the low reproductive rates of the Typees?
(a) They cannot afford destructive warfare.
(b) They do not overtax their food supply.
(c) They can keep the most fit children.
(d) They pass down property without dividing it.

3. Where are there other similar Stonehenge-like sites?
(a) By the coast where people used to trade.
(b) Near old battlefields.
(c) Near burial grounds.
(d) In the heart of the ancient cities.

4. 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.

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

6. What does Tommo find at the Ti groves?
(a) Women's company.
(b) Good fishing.
(c) Escape from the Typees.
(d) Conversation and good food.

7. What happens when the Happars venture into Typee territory?
(a) They claim the territory for themselves.
(b) They kill some Typees.
(c) They are repulsed.
(d) They steal some muskets.

8. Where does breadfruit come from?
(a) Cultivated groves.
(b) Other islands.
(c) Large trees.
(d) The Happars' part of the island.

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

10. What does Marnoo say that shocks Tommo?
(a) That he is going to eat him.
(b) Hello in English.
(c) That the Americans are looking for him.
(d) That he will help him escape.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tommo dress for the feast?

2. When the Typees prepare for their feast, what do they make their pyramid out of?

3. How does Tommo describe the Typees' lifestyle?

4. Where are the packages of pork put for everyone to eat during the feast?

5. Tommo sees a mausoleum. How is it decorated?

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