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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Gods From the Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.
(b) It refers to the border of iron which the Sawi people have erected around their territory.
(c) It means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.
(d) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.

2. How old is Don Richardson when he first felt a spiritual call to serve God as a missionary?
(a) 10.
(b) 65.
(c) 39.
(d) 20.

3. What does the Sawi expression "hahap kaman" mean?
(a) The group is full of ecstatic joy.
(b) All is lost and there is no hope left.
(c) Dinner is ready.
(d) The warriors are about to attack.

4. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.
(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 put one's head underwater completely and drink.

5. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) One.
(c) Twenty five.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?

3. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?

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

5. What is the name of the tribe that Don Richardson and his wife Carol live with?

(see the answer key)

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