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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 is the Ti?

2. Where does the narrator plan to go when he deserts his ship?

3. What do the narrator and Toby use to surpass the obstacle?

4. Where did the French Admiral sail for after Nukuheva?

5. What danger will the narrator know he will confront before he abandons his ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of routine does Tommo enter into with Kory-Kory?

2. What is life like on the whaling ship for Tommo?

3. What are the Ti and the Hoolah Hoolah grounds?

4. What plans do Toby and Tommo make for escape?

5. Who comes to see the sailors on their first morning in the Typee village?

6. What does Tommo see as his ship comes into Nukuheva bay?

7. Describe the residents of the island of Nukuheva.

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

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

10. What communication do Toby and Tommo exchange with the natives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What is the symbolic landscape of Nukuheva? What associations and symbolic meanings resonate in each of the settings: the seashore, the mountains, the ravines, the village, the sacred grounds? Describe Toby and Tommo's movement through the various landscapes in symbolic or allegorical terms.

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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