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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is a synonym for taboo?
(a) Exceptional.
(b) Unique.
(c) Forbidden.
(d) Special.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is amar made of?
(a) Mashed up mangoes.
(b) Roasted seaweed.
(c) Raw breadfruit.
(d) Fermented breadfruit mash.

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

11. What does Tommo try to engage in with the natives?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Wrestling.
(c) Arm-wrestling.
(d) Boxing.

12. To whom does Tommo compare the appearance of the Typees favorably?
(a) The French.
(b) The natives at Nukuheva.
(c) The Happars.
(d) Mediterranean sailors.

13. How does Moa Artua answer questions?
(a) He interprets the flight of birds.
(b) He is beaten and then speaks through the priest.
(c) He interprets the innards of boar and fish.
(d) He goes into a trance and then speaks.

14. What did the natives do to the captain who shot birds in the Bay of Tior, in Tommo's recollection?
(a) They killed him and ate him.
(b) They could not kill him, but they denied him water and forced him to go away.
(c) They killed all the birds themselves so he would not have any hunting.
(d) They helped him get all the birds he wanted then made him leave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when the Happars venture into Typee territory?

2. According to Marnoo, what do the French feel about coming to Typee bay?

3. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?

4. Taboos make people off-limits from others and what else?

5. What does Marnoo describe to Tommo and the others?

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