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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. According to Marnoo, what do the French feel about coming to Typee bay?

2. What is it taboo for Tommo to touch?

3. How do the women dress for the feast?

4. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?

5. What does Narmonee use for shaving his head?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Tommo describe the Typees' feelings about war?

3. Who is Moa Artua, and how is he treated?

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

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

6. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

7. How does Tommo describe the difference between men's work and women's work?

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

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

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

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

Tommo's leg is swollen and a hindrance almost from the start of his narrative. What effect does this injury/illness have on Tommo's experience, what influence does it have on the novel and what does the illness/injury represent as a metaphor or symbol in the symbolic economy of the novel? Is it contrasted with instances of vitality and freedom of movement? Is injury or illness particular to Tommo as a white person?

Essay Topic 3

How would you describe "Typee" as an allegory? What allegorical or moral meaning does "Typee" have? What is it an allegory for? What do its plot, its development, and its ultimate resolution teach us? Is there a clear moral to the book? Do you think the book's moral is clear, intentionally vague, or accidentally vague?

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