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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, A Baptism of Strangeness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flag flies on the deck of the "super canoe"?
(a) The stars and stripes of the United States.
(b) The Irian Jaya flag.
(c) The Dutch flag.
(d) The flag of pirates.

2. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?
(a) The Agrabar Waterway.
(b) The Atlantic Ocean.
(c) The Agramenon Basin.
(d) The Arafura Sea.

3. What is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?
(a) The tribal ritual of Jesus and the disciples.
(b) The tribal ritual of a "peace child."
(c) The tribal ritual of "fattening for slaughter."
(d) The tribal ritual of marriage.

4. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.
(b) It means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.
(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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What principle does Don Richardson believe God gives him to offer the tribal people?

2. What is Carol Richardson feeling as she steps onto the bank of her new home?

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

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

5. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?

(see the answer key)

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