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

2. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?
(a) Sao has developed early dementia.
(b) Sao has an immune system infection similar to AIDS.
(c) Sao is mentally ill.
(d) Sao has malaria.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?

2. What do the Tuans reportedly have to prevent fever and heal sores?

3. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?

4. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?

5. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in our present world?

(see the answer key)

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