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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 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.

2. Where are there other similar Stonehenge-like sites?
(a) Near burial grounds.
(b) Near old battlefields.
(c) In the heart of the ancient cities.
(d) By the coast where people used to trade.

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

4. What does Marnoo know about Toby's fate?
(a) He tells Tommo that Toby escaped.
(b) He has no idea.
(c) He tells Tommo that Toby was killed.
(d) He tells Tommo that Toby was captured by the French.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kory-Kory reassure Tommo?

2. What does Tommo believe are in the packages the Typees bring back with them after a skirmish with the Happars?

3. What is the benefit of the low reproductive rates of the Typees?

4. What is it that amazes Tommo about the Stonehenge-like site?

5. What does Kolory carry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the mausoleum Tommo sees.

2. What does Tommo say about the natives' musical arts?

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

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

5. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

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

7. Describe a typical day for Tommo.

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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