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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 big is a breadfruit?
(a) Watermelon-sized.
(b) Lime-sized.
(c) Lemon-sized.
(d) Melon-sized.

2. Where does Kory-Kory tell Tommo the chief in the mausoleum is going?
(a) To Hades.
(b) To the happy hunting grounds.
(c) To Polynesian paradise.
(d) To hell.

3. What does Narmonee use for shaving his head?
(a) A sharpened stone.
(b) A shark tooth.
(c) A sharpened bone.
(d) A piece of metal salvaged from a ship.

4. What rumor does Tommo hear when he is at the Ti?
(a) That Toby has died.
(b) That Toby has fled.
(c) That boats have come.
(d) That Happars have come.

5. What does Kolory carry?
(a) A spear with a carved idol.
(b) A carving of a war canoe.
(c) A club with a human skull.
(d) A Frenchman's helmet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?

2. What do people own individually?

3. Whom does Tommo ask Mehevi to take on the canoe?

4. Why are the naked old women jumping up and down during the feast?

5. What does Tommo figure out about Marnoo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of animal life does Tommo find on the island with the Typees?

2. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

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

4. How does Tommo entertain the Typee children?

5. What does Tommo say about the native practice of tattooing?

6. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.

7. What does Tommo say about the natives' fishing expedition?

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

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

10. Describe the Stonehenge-like site Tommo sees.

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