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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. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(b) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.
(c) At the central place inside the treehouse.
(d) In a small boat floating on the river.

2. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?
(a) Richardson feels that somehow Hadi is related to him.
(b) Hadi is the only Sawi who can read.
(c) Hadi is blind and Richardson feels very sorry for him.
(d) He is the first Sawi that Richardson has contact with and he speaks several tribal languages.

3. Who is waiting at the new homesite when the Richardsons arrive?
(a) Hato and Yae.
(b) John McCain and his wife.
(c) No one is waiting. The whole area is deserted.
(d) Two hundred armed warriors and many women and children,

4. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?
(a) The hip socket.
(b) The polished skull.
(c) The entire skeleton.
(d) The leg bones.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?

2. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?

3. What have the Sawi villagers constructed around the Richardson home?

4. Where are dead bodies interred in a Sawi village?

5. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?

(see the answer key)

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