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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Genesis of a Mission.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?
(a) A bind created by one person eating food which has touched another person's genitals.
(b) One person mixing blood with another person.
(c) A custom of men having more than one wife.
(d) The custom of soaking food in water before eating it.

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

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

4. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?
(a) Because it is forbidden for them to hear the sound of a skull breaking open.
(b) Because they are not allowed to eat brains.
(c) Because they all had to go and swim in the river until nightfall.
(d) Because only the older men are cannibals in the Sawi tribe.

5. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?
(a) The Agrabar Waterway.
(b) The Arafura Sea.
(c) The Agramenon Basin.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?

2. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?

3. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?

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

5. What does the tribe think of treachery and violence?

(see the answer key)

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