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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 might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?
(a) Chicken pot pie with carrots and potatoes.
(b) Lobster, recently cooked and dipped in butter.
(c) Freshly toasted sago grubs.
(d) Pudding made from a bear liver.

2. 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) In a small boat floating on the river.
(c) At the central place inside the treehouse.
(d) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.

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

4. What is "saravon"?
(a) A customary display of force meant to reassure guests that they are safe.
(b) The relationship between a Sawi man and his mother-in-law.
(c) A milky drink offered to the river gods every morning.
(d) A nutritious stew made of pork, sago and onions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?

2. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?

3. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?

4. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?

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

(see the answer key)

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