encounter - Jane Yolen

the narrator think the great-sailed canoes look like

• his hammocks

• the bird from his dream

• floating moons

• wild waves in the bay

Why does the narrator tell his chief no to welcome the strangers in the canoes?

• the narrator is afraid of strangers

• the narrator think his dream is a warning

• the narrator thinks the strangers are birds

• their canoes have wings

the colors that cover the strangers' bodies are

• sails

• feathers

• tattoos

• clothes

why doesn't anyone listen to the narrator?

• the chief want to see if they are real men first

• the narrator is still a child

• the narrator is crying and upset

• the narrator often makes up stories

the chief gives the strangers parrots because

• they like sports

• they need food

• he wants to bind them into friendship

• their colorful clothes make them look like parrots

The narrator ask his zemis to help show his people

• the truth about the strangers

• how to see into his heart

• how to eat cassava, fish and yarn

• how it blinks its wooden eyes

when the people desired all that the strangers had brought; they

• stole it from the strangers

• did not like it

• wanted it

• took it all apart

when the narrator says his world was 'a thin, dark line' he means

• he is so far from shore that he cannot see his home

• he can see the sky and the sea

• his people were sleeping

• he can see his home and people

the narrator hopes his story will help people by

• warning them against strangers who want to change their way of life

• teaching them how to count bells on a string

• warning them to stay away from canoes

• warning them not to laugh at strangers