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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Tuan Eat Brains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?
(a) Aspirin.
(b) Penicillin.
(c) Prayer.
(d) X-rays.

2. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?
(a) The custom of soaking food in water before eating it.
(b) A custom of men having more than one wife.
(c) One person mixing blood with another person.
(d) A bind created by one person eating food which has touched another person's genitals.

3. Why do the young boys spread the news that the Richardson family is eating brains?
(a) Because Richardsons tell the boys this to frighten them.
(b) Because their macaroni supper looks like brains.
(c) Because the Richardsons frighten them.
(d) Because they are lying to get attention.

4. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?
(a) To bow with deep respect to ones mother in law.
(b) To fatten with friendship.
(c) To give a child in exchange for goods and services.
(d) To leave a little on one's plate.

5. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) It means they are now an adult.
(b) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.
(c) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(d) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?

2. What does the Sawi expression "hahap kaman" mean?

3. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?

4. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

5. What is Don Richardson feeling as he steps onto the bank of the Kronkel and meets those who are waiting for them?

(see the answer key)

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