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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 does "my liver trembles" refer to?
(a) It means "you have aroused longing in me."
(b) It means "illness has struck me and I am near death."
(c) It means "the day has come for me to die."
(d) It means "I am extremely hungry."

2. What do the Tuans give the elders who come out to meet them for the first time?
(a) Necklaces made of brightly colored beads.
(b) Pens, paper and stamps.
(c) Matches, razorblades and fishing equipment.
(d) A bible, radio and a flashlight.

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

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

5. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?
(a) She is angry at him for going to Haenam.
(b) She believes Yae's spirit will need the ax in the world of the dead.
(c) She is mad with grief.
(d) She doesn't want anyone else to use it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In 1963 who does the Dutch government begin to give control of the Netherlands New Guinea to?

3. What does seven-month-old Stephen think of his first journey down the Kronkel river?

4. What does Richardson like about the possibility of building on the kidari?

5. What does the Sawi expression "hahap kaman" mean?

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