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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 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.

2. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?
(a) Bamboo fiber flour.
(b) Whole wheat flour.
(c) Rice flour.
(d) Sago flour.

3. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To drink it with a straw-like tool made of sago leaves.
(b) The river water must never be drunk. It is full of germs.
(c) To put one's head underwater completely and drink.
(d) To toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.

4. How does Don Richardson find a way into the hearts and minds of the tribe?
(a) By connecting with their own cultural redemptive analogies.
(b) By cooking great meals and making good friends with the elders.
(c) By paying them large sums of cash.
(d) By having a great sense of humor.

5. A typical stone axe would be swung 40 times to fell a tree. How many times does Hurip have to swing his steel axe to cut down the tree?
(a) 39 times.
(b) 80 times.
(c) Once.
(d) Four times

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?

3. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?

4. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?

5. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?

(see the answer key)

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