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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. What do the Sawi warriors bring on their first trading mission to Pirimapun?
(a) Elaborately carved masks and feather-adorned costumes.
(b) Pottery made from dark red riverbank clay.
(c) Guns, ammunition, spears and dynamite.
(d) Sago flour, beetle grubs, lori parrots and chickens.

2. What does the word "navo" mean in Sawi?
(a) Help me.
(b) Goodbye.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Supper.

3. What insult is hurtled at a Haenam youth which almost starts a serious battle?
(a) He is called "weird old man."
(b) He is called "slow as mud."
(c) He is called "lizard-skin."
(d) He is called "tuan like."

4. What effect does the tide have upon the black, algae-stained Kronkel river?
(a) The tide reverses the river's current and pushes it back into the swamp.
(b) The tide sends ocean salmon back to the place they spawned.
(c) The tide sends great cresting waves up the river which create chaos.
(d) The tide kills fish and wildlife as water rushes in and floods the area.

5. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?
(a) Between the modern world and the stone age world.
(b) Between women and men.
(c) Between the savagery and the gospel of peace.
(d) Between God and Satan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Sawi what does "cool water" mean?

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

4. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?

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

(see the answer key)

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