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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 does Richardson believe is unavoidable in our present world?
(a) Cross-cultural communication.
(b) Annihilation and destruction.
(c) The end of all we know.
(d) Despair and continual war.

2. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?
(a) The great-grandfather of Don Richardson's who farmed in Nebraska.
(b) An explorer and geographer who had charted Africa.
(c) A veteran missionary who speaks at Don Richardson's college.
(d) A well known philosopher and theologian from Denmark.

3. 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 mad with grief.
(d) She is angry at him for going to Haenam.

4. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?
(a) They drive from Canada to Mexico, take a small yacht across the Pacific Ocean and land in New Guinea.
(b) They fly from New York City on the Concorde and then drive into the Sawi territory.
(c) They fly to Russia and then to Zurich and then to Australia and finally take a sailboat up to New Guinea.
(d) They sail from Vancouver on the ship "Oriana" and then fly into the interior.

5. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) At the central place inside the treehouse.
(b) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(c) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.
(d) In a small boat floating on the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?

2. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?

3. How old is Don Richardson when he first felt a spiritual call to serve God as a missionary?

4. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?

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?

(see the answer key)

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