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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Toby and the narrator see when they reach the valley at the bottom of the second waterfall?
(a) Native hunters.
(b) A dead bird.
(c) Peeled fruit.
(d) Native villages.

2. According to the narrator, what do sea birds signal?
(a) Other shipping.
(b) Approaching land.
(c) Good weather.
(d) Whales.

3. What does the narrator use when he descends the waterfall?
(a) Toby's help.
(b) Tree bark for sandals.
(c) A walking stick.
(d) Hanging vines.

4. What do the narrator and Toby plan to subsist on on the island?
(a) Food stolen from the ship.
(b) Food stolen from the natives.
(c) Food stolen from the marketplace.
(d) Wild fruit.

5. What kind of meat do Toby and Tommo eat with the Typees?
(a) Roast hog.
(b) Human flesh.
(c) Breadfruit.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Ti?

2. How do the Typees respond to news of a boat in their bay?

3. How does the narrator describe Toby's personality?

4. What does Tommo think is his and Toby's only chance for escape?

5. Whom does Mehevi bring to Toby and Tommo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Toby and Tommo follow a footpath. Where does it lead them, and how do they proceed?

2. Who comes to see the sailors on their first morning in the Typee village?

3. What is life like on the whaling ship for Tommo?

4. What is Tommo's situation at the beginning of "Typee"?

5. What kind of routine does Tommo enter into with Kory-Kory?

6. What do Toby and Tommo discover when they make it to the mountain?

7. What communication do Toby and Tommo exchange with the natives?

8. What signs of civilization do Toby and Tommo see from the mountains?

9. Describe Toby and Tommo's escape from the ship.

10. What is Kory-Kory's relationship with Tommo like?

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