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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 does Tommo like about the Typee lifestyle?

2. Who is Moa Artua?

3. What are pi-pis used for?

4. What does Tommo try to engage in with the natives?

5. How does Tommo describe the activity before sleep?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe a typical day for Tommo.

2. Describe the preparations for the feast of the calabashes.

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

4. How does Tommo entertain the Typee children?

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

6. What does Tommo say about the natives' musical arts?

7. Who is Marnoo, and what is his interaction with Tommo?

8. What sight disturbs Tommo?

9. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.

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

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

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 3

Write a review of "Typee". What did the book set out to do, how did it set out to do it, and did it fulfill the promises it laid out in the opening chapters? How would you characterize the essence of this book? Melville's personality? Melville's literary interests and talents?

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