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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Through the Ironwood Curtain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?
(a) Lobster, recently cooked and dipped in butter.
(b) Freshly toasted sago grubs.
(c) Chicken pot pie with carrots and potatoes.
(d) Pudding made from a bear liver.

2. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?
(a) Most of the warriors faint and have to be revived with camphor.
(b) They stand in their canoes completely and totally still.
(c) They panic, many of them leaping out of the canoes; everyone trembling.
(d) They launch an attack of arrows.

3. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.
(b) In a small boat floating on the river.
(c) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(d) At the central place inside the treehouse.

4. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.
(b) The river water must never be drunk. It is full of germs.
(c) To put one's head underwater completely and drink.
(d) To drink it with a straw-like tool made of sago leaves.

5. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?
(a) A thousand dollars.
(b) A gun and sword.
(c) His own wife.
(d) A peace child.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

2. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?

3. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?

4. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?

5. What does Richardson like about the possibility of building on the kidari?

(see the answer key)

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