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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. How many days food supply do the narrator and Toby have when they reach the mountain?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Six.
(d) Three.

2. What course of action does Toby urge for himself and Tommo?
(a) Wage battle, with the Typees, against the Happars.
(b) Escape.
(c) Return to the ships.
(d) Marry Typee girls.

3. What causes Tommo intense pain in the Typee village?
(a) He cuts himself on a reed.
(b) He is hit in a fight to escape.
(c) He is tied up by the Typee warriors.
(d) The doctor hits his leg.

4. What breaks Toby's fall when he jumps at the bottom of the descent of the second waterfall?
(a) Low bushes.
(b) A palm tree.
(c) The water.
(d) Native hunters.

5. What does the narrator try to conceal from Toby?
(a) His plan to return to the ship.
(b) His hunger.
(c) His fear of the natives.
(d) His poor health.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name do the natives give Tom?

2. What do the Typees allow Toby to do?

3. What is Mehevi's status among the Typees?

4. What does the narrator see when he wakes up after a nap on his second day on the island?

5. What do the French want to demonstrate to the natives at Nukuheva?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Why would it be dangerous for Tommo to desert from his ship, and how does he plan to avoid the danger?

8. Describe the island of Nukuheva.

9. What happens when ships come into the bay?

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

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