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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Tuan Eat Brains.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?
(a) He shoots a shot gun in their direction.
(b) He eats brains.
(c) He lights a kerosene lamp in the darkness.
(d) He throws a handful of firecrackers out of the front door.

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

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

4. What does the high pitched command signal should happen?
(a) It signals that the drums should begin.
(b) It signals that everyone should go home.
(c) It signals that the Richardsons should be attacked and brought down.
(d) It signals that the children should ask for food and water.

5. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?
(a) Kauwan has been promised a wife by one of the village men.
(b) Kauwan is Yae's brother and has no power.
(c) Kauwan has been taken away to the jungle by his family.
(d) Kauwan is deaf and cannot hear Yae's cry of fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What machine does the Richardson family have that is very mysterious to the Sawi people?

2. What do Sawi men smoke in their pipes?

3. Why are the Kayagar men upset with Richardson when he announces his intention to build a home in Sawi territory?

4. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?

5. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?

(see the answer key)

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