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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 "saravon"?
(a) A milky drink offered to the river gods every morning.
(b) The relationship between a Sawi man and his mother-in-law.
(c) A nutritious stew made of pork, sago and onions.
(d) A customary display of force meant to reassure guests that they are safe.

2. 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 replace them with steel girders.
(c) They move to another location.
(d) They lower their houses to the ground.

3. How many piers are driven into the jungle floor to build Richardson's house?
(a) Sixteen piers are placed.
(b) There are no piers; it is a small platform that the trailer sat on.
(c) Two piers are placed.
(d) Forty-five piers are placed.

4. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?
(a) She doesn't want anyone else to use it.
(b) She believes Yae's spirit will need the ax in the world of the dead.
(c) She is angry at him for going to Haenam.
(d) She is mad with grief.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Don Richardson find a way into the hearts and minds of the tribe?

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

3. How does Yae get from the tree house to the ground?

4. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?

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

(see the answer key)

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