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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Gods From the Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the tribe that Don Richardson and his wife Carol live with?
(a) The South End tribe.
(b) The Sowanda tribe.
(c) The Sawi tribe.
(d) The Soweto tribe.

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

3. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?
(a) They launch an attack of arrows.
(b) They panic, many of them leaping out of the canoes; everyone trembling.
(c) They stand in their canoes completely and totally still.
(d) Most of the warriors faint and have to be revived with camphor.

4. What does Hurip trade to obtain his "kapak," his steel ax?
(a) Many months of work.
(b) Pork, fish and stone-tipped arrows.
(c) One of his children.
(d) Gold and silver.

5. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?
(a) They work with their neighbors and replace all the poles.
(b) They move to another location.
(c) They replace them with steel girders.
(d) They lower their houses to the ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Richardsons go to live in New Guinea?

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

3. What event shatters the air of tension between the tribes on the first day of building?

4. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?

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

(see the answer key)

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