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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, My Liver Trembles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women do during battle?
(a) The women throw stones and sharp rocks at the enemy.
(b) The women curse and bang their pounding sticks on the ground.
(c) The women shield the children.
(d) The women taunt their own men to be more brave.

2. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?
(a) "Es! That's enough!"
(b) "No more steel tools unless you stop!"
(c) "Get out of my front yard!"
(d) "There is another way!"

3. What does the word "navo" mean in Sawi?
(a) Supper.
(b) Goodbye.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Help me.

4. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) The Germans.
(c) The Australians.
(d) The Americans.

5. Who stands at the front of the battle, on the front line, so to speak?
(a) The women.
(b) The young teenage boys.
(c) The jesters and clowns are sent to the front to distract.
(d) The most experienced warriors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?

2. What does "my liver trembles" refer to?

3. What have the Sawi villagers constructed around the Richardson home?

4. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?

5. What do the Sawi people call Jesus?

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