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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 is Tommo's experience of the mineral spring water?
(a) It is very hot.
(b) It rejuvenates him.
(c) It tastes terrible.
(d) It heals his leg.

2. Tommo sees a mausoleum. How is it decorated?
(a) The chief is placed upright in his grave.
(b) The chief is depicted in a warlike stance.
(c) The deceased chief's effigy is in a canoe.
(d) The chief is mummified.

3. What sight astonishes Tommo but not the Typee mothers?
(a) Five-year-old children walking on fire.
(b) Five-year-old children 100 feet up in trees.
(c) Five-year-old children eating human flesh.
(d) Five-year-old children swimming with sharks.

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

5. What does Tommo figure out about Marnoo?
(a) That he was raised by the Happars.
(b) That he was once exiled from the Typees.
(c) That he has been to France.
(d) That he is taboo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the appearance of the Typees does Tommo notice most?

2. What does Tommo think about human sacrifices before the feast?

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

4. Where does breadfruit come from?

5. What are pi-pis used for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.

2. Describe the Stonehenge-like site Tommo sees.

3. How does Tommo describe the difference between men's work and women's work?

4. What does Tommo describe of the natives' cosmetics?

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

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

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

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

9. How does Tommo's leg affect his relationship with the natives?

10. How does Tommo compare the Typees to white people?

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