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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 is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?
(a) The tribal ritual of "fattening for slaughter."
(b) The tribal ritual of marriage.
(c) The tribal ritual of a "peace child."
(d) The tribal ritual of Jesus and the disciples.

2. What does Hurip trade to obtain his "kapak," his steel ax?
(a) Gold and silver.
(b) Many months of work.
(c) Pork, fish and stone-tipped arrows.
(d) One of his children.

3. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in our present world?
(a) Annihilation and destruction.
(b) The end of all we know.
(c) Cross-cultural communication.
(d) Despair and continual war.

4. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) It means they are now an adult.
(b) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(c) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.
(d) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?

2. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

3. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?

4. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?

5. What effect does the tide have upon the black, algae-stained Kronkel river?

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