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

2. What is the Eren ceremony?
(a) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the jawbone of a freshly killed victim.
(b) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the full status of matriarch.
(c) A ceremony in which a man and woman adopt orphaned children.
(d) A ritual in which women cook pork and sago to celebrate the full moon.

3. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?
(a) Brother to brother.
(b) A man and his wife.
(c) A mother and her grandmother.
(d) A man and his mother-in-law.

4. What is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?
(a) For the tide to turn so that he can journey more easily.
(b) For the rains to come and water his crops.
(c) For God to send him inspiration so that he can name his child.
(d) For the village to nominate him chief.

5. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?
(a) Hadi is blind and Richardson feels very sorry for him.
(b) Hadi is the only Sawi who can read.
(c) Richardson feels that somehow Hadi is related to him.
(d) He is the first Sawi that Richardson has contact with and he speaks several tribal languages.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

3. How many tribes are in the area of New Guinea?

4. What does Richardson feel when he first shakes hands with a Sawi elder?

5. What is Don Richardson feeling as he steps onto the bank of the Kronkel and meets those who are waiting for them?

(see the answer key)

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