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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the women dress for the feast?
(a) In tappa skirts, wrapped in flowers.
(b) They wear elaborate batik skirts.
(c) They wear only loincloths, with flowers in their hair.
(d) They wear robes of feathers and flowers.

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

3. How does Tommo describe the Typees' lifestyle?
(a) Migratory.
(b) Contentious.
(c) Harmonious.
(d) Precarious.

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

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

6. What does Karky want to do to Tommo?
(a) Eat him.
(b) Enlist him with the warriors.
(c) Heal him.
(d) Tattoo his face.

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

8. What is Tommo's experience of the mineral spring water?
(a) It tastes terrible.
(b) It is very hot.
(c) It heals his leg.
(d) It rejuvenates him.

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

10. What technical knowledge of Tommo's do the Typees express interest in?
(a) Gunpowder.
(b) Needle and thread.
(c) Sailing and navigation.
(d) Penicillin.

11. What does Narmonee use for shaving his head?
(a) A shark tooth.
(b) A sharpened bone.
(c) A sharpened stone.
(d) A piece of metal salvaged from a ship.

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

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

14. How many husbands do most Typee women have?
(a) Two.
(b) As many as they like.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Tommo dress for the feast?

2. What do children use to climb coconut trees?

3. What does Tommo believe are in the packages the Typees bring back with them after a skirmish with the Happars?

4. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?

5. Why does Tommo say the natives are hostile to Europeans?

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