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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. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?
(a) Kauwan has been promised a wife by one of the village men.
(b) Kauwan has been taken away to the jungle by his family.
(c) Kauwan is deaf and cannot hear Yae's cry of fear.
(d) Kauwan is Yae's brother and has no power.

2. 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 his treehouse, forty feet above the Kronkel river.
(c) Yae is sitting by the man-made pool in his backyard.
(d) Yae is sitting in the hospital where his wife is dying in childbirth.

3. What is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?
(a) The tribal ritual of marriage.
(b) The tribal ritual of "fattening for slaughter."
(c) The tribal ritual of Jesus and the disciples.
(d) The tribal ritual of a "peace child."

4. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?
(a) Two.
(b) Seven.
(c) Seven hundred and fifty.
(d) One.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is "saravon"?

3. What flag flies on the deck of the "super canoe"?

4. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?

5. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?

(see the answer key)

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