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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 the natives bring to the Dolly?
(a) Coconuts.
(b) Live birds.
(c) Food.
(d) Shrunken heads.

2. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?
(a) The French will try to hunt him down.
(b) The captain will bribe the natives to search for him.
(c) The savages will hunt him and sell him into slavery.
(d) The renegades and deserters on the island will torture him before they admit him into their group.

3. What do the French put ashore at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Mutinous sailors.
(b) Captives from American ships.
(c) A hundred soldiers.
(d) Natives returning home.

4. What do the Typees allow Toby to do?
(a) Get help from the French ships.
(b) Return to the American ship.
(c) Marry a Typee girl.
(d) Travel to the boundary of Happar territory.

5. What does Kory-Kory tell Toby and Tommo about the Happars?
(a) That they are cannibals.
(b) That they will sell them to the French.
(c) That they are murderers.
(d) That they have been hired by the Americans to find the deserters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator try to conceal from Toby?

2. What do the narrators hope to find if they follow the river at the bottom of the ravine?

3. How does Toby plan to help Tommo?

4. What is the Ti?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tommo see as his ship comes into Nukuheva bay?

2. What do Toby and Tommo do when they can no longer descend the cliff by using vines and foot holds?

3. What happens when the Typees bring Toby back to their village after the noon-time siesta?

4. Describe the incident with the French and the English missionaries.

5. Describe the residents of the island of Nukuheva.

6. What signs of native activity do Toby and Tommo see, and how do they ultimately meet the natives?

7. Describe the French efforts to take over the harbor of Nukuheva.

8. What preparations do Toby and Tommo make, and what obstacles do they encounter when they escape?

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

10. Describe Tommo's companion Toby.

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