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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 happens when the Happars venture into Typee territory?
(a) They are repulsed.
(b) They claim the territory for themselves.
(c) They steal some muskets.
(d) They kill some Typees.

2. How does Kory-Kory reassure Tommo?
(a) He tells him that his bad leg prevents him from being eaten.
(b) He tells him that he is likely to be rescued soon.
(c) He tells him that he is part of the tribe now, and will never be eaten.
(d) He tells him that the Typee warriors were feasting on pig, not Happar warriors.

3. What does Tommo find is in short supply on the island?
(a) Wild boar.
(b) Gold.
(c) Salt.
(d) Breadfruit.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Tommo disgusted by in how the Typees eat fish?

2. What does Kolory carry?

3. What does Tommo compare to the Typees' cannibalism?

4. What technical knowledge of Tommo's do the Typees express interest in?

5. Why does Tommo say the natives are hostile to Europeans?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.

2. How does Tommo describe the Typees' feelings about war?

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

4. Describe the Stonehenge-like site Tommo sees.

5. How do the Typees harvest coconuts, in Tommo's account?

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

7. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

8. Describe a typical day for Tommo.

9. What technology of Tommo's impresses the Typees?

10. What sight disturbs Tommo?

(see the answer keys)

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