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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 Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?
(a) A peace child.
(b) A gun and sword.
(c) A thousand dollars.
(d) His own wife.

2. Who is the first patriarch in the Sawi tribe to convert to Christianity?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Richardson.
(c) Mavo.
(d) Hato.

3. How does Mavo respond to the protection and kindness which Richardson shows to him?
(a) Mavo promises he will follow the Richardsons anywhere.
(b) Mavo converts to Christianity that evening.
(c) Mavo leaves the area and travels to the nearest Dutch government outpost.
(d) Mavo gives Richardson one of his own children.

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

5. What do the women do during battle?
(a) The women throw stones and sharp rocks at the enemy.
(b) The women taunt their own men to be more brave.
(c) The women curse and bang their pounding sticks on the ground.
(d) The women shield the children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?

2. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?

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

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

5. What insult is hurtled at a Haenam youth which almost starts a serious battle?

(see the answer key)

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