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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20, My Liver Trembles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women do during battle?
(a) The women shield the children.
(b) The women throw stones and sharp rocks at the enemy.
(c) The women curse and bang their pounding sticks on the ground.
(d) The women taunt their own men to be more brave.

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

3. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?
(a) The Germans.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Australians.
(d) The Netherlands.

4. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?
(a) A Christian community and missionary training school in Alberta, Canada.
(b) A school which teaches English and Dutch to the children from the Sawi culture.
(c) A far right think tank in western Kansas.
(d) A large university in Nebraska which was founded by Mennonites.

5. What do the Sawi people call Jesus?
(a) Tawanda Tahoi, the one who is beyond reach.
(b) Tarap Tim Kodon, the perfect peace child.
(c) Tahari Tamala, the spirit who rises again.
(d) Jesus the Tailor, the one who makes us new.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the first patriarch in the Sawi tribe to convert to Christianity?

2. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?

3. Who stands at the front of the battle, on the front line, so to speak?

4. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?

5. Why is it so important to Richardson that the patriarchs, the older men, convert to Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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