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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Genesis of a Mission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?
(a) Kauwan has been promised a wife by one of the village men.
(b) Kauwan has been taken away to the jungle by his family.
(c) Kauwan is Yae's brother and has no power.
(d) Kauwan is deaf and cannot hear Yae's cry of fear.

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

3. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?
(a) They lower their houses to the ground.
(b) They work with their neighbors and replace all the poles.
(c) They move to another location.
(d) They replace them with steel girders.

4. What is the Eren ceremony?
(a) A ceremony in which a man and woman adopt orphaned children.
(b) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the full status of matriarch.
(c) A ritual in which women cook pork and sago to celebrate the full moon.
(d) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the jawbone of a freshly killed victim.

5. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?
(a) Land without time.
(b) The place of death.
(c) Waiting until the sun comes up.
(d) Mission State.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Netherlands New Guinea, or Irian Jaya as it is later called, located in relation to Australia?

2. What do the Tuans give the elders who come out to meet them for the first time?

3. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?

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

5. A typical stone axe would be swung 40 times to fell a tree. How many times does Hurip have to swing his steel axe to cut down the tree?

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