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

2. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?
(a) He dies of starvation.
(b) The dogs of the village.
(c) His mother-in-law.
(d) The women and children of the Haenam village.

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

4. What brings the Sawi villagers to a sudden halt when they hear it for the first time?
(a) The diesel engines of the Dutch military boats.
(b) The explosion of a nuclear bomb.
(c) The large migration of birds which flew overhead.
(d) The song of a lark at break of day.

5. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?
(a) Sao has an immune system infection similar to AIDS.
(b) Sao is mentally ill.
(c) Sao has developed early dementia.
(d) Sao has malaria.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?

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

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

4. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?

5. Why do the elders Kigo, Hatu and Numu volunteer to make contact with the Tuans?

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