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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, A Baptism of Strangeness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Netherlands New Guinea, or Irian Jaya as it is later called, located in relation to Australia?
(a) It is in Australia, right in the central district.
(b) Southwest of Australia.
(c) It is not near Australia but located near India.
(d) Directly north of Australia.

2. How does Don Richardson find a way into the hearts and minds of the tribe?
(a) By cooking great meals and making good friends with the elders.
(b) By paying them large sums of cash.
(c) By connecting with their own cultural redemptive analogies.
(d) By having a great sense of humor.

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

4. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?
(a) They sail from Vancouver on the ship "Oriana" and then fly into the interior.
(b) They fly from New York City on the Concorde and then drive into the Sawi territory.
(c) They drive from Canada to Mexico, take a small yacht across the Pacific Ocean and land in New Guinea.
(d) They fly to Russia and then to Zurich and then to Australia and finally take a sailboat up to New Guinea.

5. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?
(a) A face made of teeth.
(b) New sago flour.
(c) Moonlight on the river.
(d) The mouth of a crocodile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is building Richardson's house?

2. What is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?

3. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?

4. Why do the elders Kigo, Hatu and Numu volunteer to make contact with the Tuans?

5. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?

(see the answer key)

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