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

2. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?
(a) 1892.
(b) 2008.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1962.

3. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?
(a) Because it would show how wise she was.
(b) Because her husband has died.
(c) Because of lice.
(d) Because it customary for a bride to have a shaved head.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Netherlands New Guinea, or Irian Jaya as it is later called, located in relation to Australia?

2. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?

3. What is the name of the tribe that Don Richardson and his wife Carol live with?

4. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

5. What principle does Don Richardson believe God gives him to offer the tribal people?

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