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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, The Living Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?
(a) Tuans kill and eat their women.
(b) The men must fight to obtain wives since there are so few women.
(c) Tuans live forever and therefore do not need offspring.
(d) Tuans are supernatural and do not need to procreate.

2. What is "aumamay"?
(a) The Sawi believe it is "apparent life" when the body still lives but the soul is gone.
(b) The Sawi believe it is the only way to go to heaven.
(c) The Sawi believe it is the power of the River God Tatau visited upon the living.
(d) The Sawi believe it is a state of spiritual confusion.

3. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1962.

4. What principle does Don Richardson believe God gives him to offer the tribal people?
(a) The principle of redemption.
(b) The principle of cause and effect.
(c) The principle of capitalism.
(d) The principle of original sin.

5. What does Richardson build his home with?
(a) Ironwood, split palm bark, mangrove poles and sago fronds.
(b) Oak, cherry, and walnut.
(c) Parts of an old boat which was moored on the river nearby.
(d) He brings in a small airstream trailer and sets it on a platform.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?

2. Who is Patches?

3. What brings the Sawi villagers to a sudden halt when they hear it for the first time?

4. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?

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

(see the answer key)

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