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

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

3. According to Marnoo, what do the French feel about coming to Typee bay?
(a) They anticipate good trade.
(b) They are afraid.
(c) They will be glad to restock their ships.
(d) They are aggressive.

4. 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.

5. Where are the packages of pork put for everyone to eat during the feast?
(a) In the trees.
(b) Along the stream
(c) Along the paths.
(d) In the Ti.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is private property a Typee practice?

2. On whom does Tommo say the Typees practice cannibalism?

3. What is Tommo surprised not to find on the island?

4. What rumor does Tommo hear when he is at the Ti?

5. To whom does Tommo compare the appearance of the Typees favorably?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tommo say about relations between Typee husbands and wives?

2. How is the men's company different from the women's company for Tommo?

3. What does Tommo say about the Typees' different foods?

4. Describe the preparations for the feast of the calabashes.

5. Describe the harmonious aspects of Typee life Tommo notices.

6. Describe the mausoleum Tommo sees.

7. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

8. Who is Marnoo, and what is his interaction with Tommo?

9. What does Tommo say about the Typees as swimmers?

10. How does Tommo entertain the Typee children?

(see the answer keys)

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