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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?
(a) Rice flour.
(b) Bamboo fiber flour.
(c) Whole wheat flour.
(d) Sago flour.

2. What do the Tumdu women use as flour in their cooking?
(a) Sago palm flour.
(b) Whole wheat flour.
(c) Bamboo plant flour.
(d) Ironwood tree flour.

3. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?
(a) The great-grandfather of Don Richardson's who farmed in Nebraska.
(b) A veteran missionary who speaks at Don Richardson's college.
(c) A well known philosopher and theologian from Denmark.
(d) An explorer and geographer who had charted Africa.

4. What does the tribe think of treachery and violence?
(a) They don't understand it at all.
(b) They are horrified by the concepts and live only peaceful quiet lives.
(c) They honor it as a legendary activity.
(d) They have never heard of treachery and violence.

5. What is Don Richardson feeling as he steps onto the bank of the Kronkel and meets those who are waiting for them?
(a) He is angry at his wife for being so scared.
(b) He is frightened that he may have misread the situation.
(c) He is feeling triumphant at having made the voyage.
(d) He is psyching himself up for the sermon he is going to give.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the high pitched command signal should happen?

2. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?

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

4. Who is the patriarch of the Tumdu?

5. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the sound of the diesel boat engines so frightening?

2. What does the village of Mauro look like?

3. Who are the people that the author is going to work with?

4. What do the young 7-month-old Stephen and the grown Sawi man Narai have in common?

5. Why does the ecstatic Sawi communal expression of "hahap kaman" so deeply affect Richardson?

6. What do the Richardsons find surprising and difficult about the Sawi people?

7. What kinds of weapons does Yae take on the trip?

8. Why does Richardson title this chapter "Baptism of Strangeness"?

9. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

10. Why was Yae so confident and relaxed on this visit to the Haenam village?

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