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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22, The Power of Aumamay.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Biakadon?
(a) The leader of the Kumar village.
(b) The legendary god of the sea.
(c) The young man who works for the Richardsons.
(d) The infant son of Kaiyo and Wumi.

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

3. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?
(a) "There is another way!"
(b) "Get out of my front yard!"
(c) "No more steel tools unless you stop!"
(d) "Es! That's enough!"

4. What do Aham and Richardson have in common?
(a) They have nothing in common.
(b) They both believe that Warahari is dead.
(c) They are both over 60 years of age.
(d) They both believe in a spiritual world, and they both talk to spirit/god.

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 frightened that he may have misread the situation.
(b) He is angry at his wife for being so scared.
(c) He is psyching himself up for the sermon he is going to give.
(d) He is feeling triumphant at having made the voyage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the young boys spread the news that the Richardson family is eating brains?

2. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?

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

4. What is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?

5. Who is the woman, once beautiful, now covered in mud, weeping and wailing in grief?

(see the answer key)

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