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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Shadow of the Tuans.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.
(b) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.
(c) It means they are now an adult.
(d) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.

2. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?
(a) She takes the bone and grinds it into fine dust and then spreads it atop the river.
(b) She is filled with remorse and grief and refuses to take it.
(c) She cries out in jubilation and dances to celebrate her great honor.
(d) She promises that she will send it to Yae's wife as an expression of her sympathy.

3. What do the Tuans reportedly have to prevent fever and heal sores?
(a) Animal totems.
(b) Antibiotics and oxygen tanks.
(c) Witchcraft called "obat."
(d) Fire breathing guns.

4. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Yae is sitting in a plane which is on its way to Istanbul.
(b) Yae is sitting in the hospital where his wife is dying in childbirth.
(c) Yae is sitting by the man-made pool in his backyard.
(d) Yae is sitting in his treehouse, forty feet above the Kronkel river.

5. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Twenty five.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?

2. What does the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?

3. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?

4. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?

5. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?

(see the answer key)

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