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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prevents Tommo from joining Toby's plan?

2. What causes Tommo intense pain in the Typee village?

3. What do the narrator and Toby find in their pockets when they have reached the mountain?

4. What event precipitates the narrator's ship heading to land?

5. What do the narrator and Toby find on the mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What preparations do Toby and Tommo make, and what obstacles do they encounter when they escape?

2. How does Tommo feel about his time on the Dolly?

3. Describe Fayaway's appearance.

4. Describe the French efforts to take over the harbor of Nukuheva.

5. Describe the residents of the island of Nukuheva.

6. What is Tommo's situation at the beginning of "Typee"?

7. What happens when the Typees bring Toby back to their village after the noon-time siesta?

8. What happens to Tommo's health as he and Toby make their way around in the mountains?

9. What happens when ships come into the bay?

10. Describe Tommo's companion Toby.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Toby and Tommo's views about women, and how are their views about women different from the Typees' views about women?

Essay Topic 2

How is "Typee" plotted, i.e. what questions or tensions are raised in the beginning to keep your interest, and how are the questions either resolved, or how do they change into other questions as the book proceeds? What are the predominant issues the book seems to be trying to resolve, and how does the book ultimately resolve them? Are new issues introduced? Are some issues left unresolved? How is resolution achieved, where there is resolution?

Essay Topic 3

Cannibalism is a major threat in "Typee", but it is not much in evidence. Do the instances of supposed cannibalism live up to the threatening rhetoric about cannibalistic practices, or is cannibalism largely a red herring, an ultimately meaningless and unthreatening idea in the economy of the novel? How does the significance of cannibalism change throughout "Typee"?

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