1. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Yae is sitting by the man-made pool in his backyard.
(b) Yae is sitting in the hospital where his wife is dying in childbirth.
(c) Yae is sitting in a plane which is on its way to Istanbul.
(d) Yae is sitting in his treehouse, forty feet above the Kronkel river.

2. What does Richardson feel when he first shakes hands with a Sawi elder?
(a) That they are equally human...flesh and blood...men.
(b) That the Sawi will never understand the way of the modern world.
(c) That the Sawi are very short but quite strong.
(d) That these people are not to be trusted...ever...

3. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.
(b) It means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.
(c) It refers to the border of iron which the Sawi people have erected around their territory.
(d) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.

4. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?
(a) Hadi is the only Sawi who can read.
(b) He is the first Sawi that Richardson has contact with and he speaks several tribal languages.
(c) Richardson feels that somehow Hadi is related to him.
(d) Hadi is blind and Richardson feels very sorry for him.

5. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?
(a) Brother to brother.
(b) A man and his mother-in-law.
(c) A man and his wife.
(d) A mother and her grandmother.