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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Tommo disgusted by in how the Typees eat fish?
(a) They eat the fish in seaweed.
(b) They eat them raw.
(c) They mash them up with breadfruit.
(d) They eat the little fish they find in the bigger fishes' stomachs.

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

3. What is it that amazes Tommo about the Stonehenge-like site?
(a) The craftsmanship of the carvings.
(b) Ancient men having mechanical abilities.
(c) The alignment of the stones with the solar calendar.
(d) The enormous scale of the site.

4. Where is there an ancient, Stonehenge-like site?
(a) In the Happar territory.
(b) Near the mountains.
(c) Near the shore.
(d) By the stream.

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

6. What does Tommo think about human sacrifices before the feast?
(a) He thinks it is an exaggeration from sailors.
(b) He thinks it is necessary to the harmony of the cosmos.
(c) He thinks it is a grave religious ritual.
(d) He thinks it is a way to take power from an enemy.

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

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

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

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

11. What does Tommo compare to the Typees' cannibalism?
(a) White men's tortures.
(b) White men's diseases.
(c) White men's warfare.
(d) White men's religion.

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

13. What do children use to climb coconut trees?
(a) Devices made of bark.
(b) Toothed sandals.
(c) Leather slippers.
(d) Grips made of bone.

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

15. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?
(a) Five-year-old children eating human flesh.
(b) Five-year-old children walking on fire.
(c) Five-year-old children 100 feet up in trees.
(d) Five-year-old children swimming with sharks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Moa Artua?

2. What does Kory-Kory tell Tommo about the ancient site?

3. What does Tommo try to engage in with the natives?

4. What do the natives keep asking Tommo to do?

5. How does Tommo dress for the feast?

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