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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 do the narrator and Toby grab on their way off the ship?

2. What does Mehevi want information about from Toby and Tommo?

3. What does Kory-Kory tell Toby and Tommo about the Happars?

4. What happens to the narrator's leg?

5. Whom does Mehevi bring to Toby and Tommo?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the incident with the French and the English missionaries.

2. Describe Fayaway's appearance.

3. What is Kory-Kory's relationship with Tommo like?

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

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

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

7. What do Toby and Tommo do when they can no longer descend the cliff by using vines and foot holds?

8. What happens when ships come into the bay?

9. Describe Toby and Tommo's progress through the ravine.

10. Describe the residents of the island of Nukuheva.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

After arranging his escape, Tommo is largely passive, ostensibly because of his leg, but possibly because of his personality. In what ways does Tommo act, and how do his actions change over the course of the book? E.g. in the beginning of the book, he is plotting to escape from the ship, in the end he is plotting to escape from Typee. How are these actions similar or different?

Essay Topic 2

Does Tommo's escape from Typee signify a repudiation of the beauty and harmony he found there? Does he seem to retain some vestige of the Typee lifestyle and values when he returns to life aboard European ships? Does Tommo find that the two lifestyles are ultimately incompatible, or can they be combined or reconciled?

Essay Topic 3

How does the idea of the taboo apply to "Typee"? What characters or things are taboo, and what does the taboo mean in each case? Are taboos violated? Are exceptions made? What is Tommo's relationship with the Typee taboos? Is he initiated into any of them or is he kept apart from them?

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