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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. How does Kory-Kory describe the Typee heaven?

2. What does Tommo notice about the insects in Typee?

3. What is Tommo disgusted by in how the Typees eat fish?

4. How is the fish catch divided among the Typees?

5. How many husbands do most Typee women have?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the Stonehenge-like site Tommo sees.

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

6. Describe the practice of taboos among the Typees.

7. Describe Typee marriage arrangements.

8. What does Tommo say about the Typees as swimmers?

9. How does Tommo entertain the Typee children?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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"?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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