Typee Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Typee? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What does Tommo demand, despite taboos?


a smart-phone to call home
to go into battle against the Happar
a boat for the lake
to try on Mehevi's headdress
Q. What does Tommo touch that he's not supposed to?


a cat, who then scratches him
the tappa the women are making
a live wire
Kory-Kory's storage sacks
Q. What does Tommo think will happen to the islanders once the missionaries get there?


They'll become diseased and starved.
They'll be happier.
They'll realize everything about the way they were living was wrong.
They'll take over the government and declare cannibalism legal.
Q. What made Fayaway different from the other Typee women (besides her beauty)?


no face tattoos
the way she wore her tappa
she had light hair
she spoke English, French, and Esperanto
Q. What do Toby and Tommo think "puarkee" is?


porridge
a baked human infant
roast pork
a pick-up truck that will take them away from all this