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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. Taboos make people off-limits from others and what else?

2. What does Kolory carry?

3. What about the appearance of the Typees does Tommo notice most?

4. Tommo sees a mausoleum. How is it decorated?

5. What do children use to climb coconut trees?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens after the second skirmish with the Happars?

2. How does Tommo compare the Typees to white people?

3. Describe the harmonious aspects of Typee life Tommo notices.

4. How is the men's company different from the women's company for Tommo?

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

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

7. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

8. Describe Tommo's relationship with the women of Typee.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of fruit trees to Toby and Tommo? How is easily harvested fruit a change from what they have experienced? How is the idea of "fruit ripe for the picking" played out in the novel? How is it different from what Toby and Tommo ultimately find? What happens to their image of an easy life as their adventure proceeds?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is the function of technology in "Typee"? What does it mean to Tommo, and what does it mean to the Typees? Tommo admires the Typees' technology-free lifestyle, but he does not particularly benefit by western technology, or medical knowledge. How do the Typees relate to technology? What about their ancient predecessors, who made the Stonehenge-like structures? Does the significance of technology change over the course of the novel?

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