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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 time of day does the Richardson family arrive at their new home?
(a) Noon.
(b) Daybreak.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Midnight.

2. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?
(a) She promises that she will send it to Yae's wife as an expression of her sympathy.
(b) She is filled with remorse and grief and refuses to take it.
(c) She cries out in jubilation and dances to celebrate her great honor.
(d) She takes the bone and grinds it into fine dust and then spreads it atop the river.

3. What event shatters the air of tension between the tribes on the first day of building?
(a) A boat from John McCain arrives
(b) A storm suddenly appears and lightning strikes the building.
(c) The Missionary Aviation Fellowship plane arrives.
(d) Richardson begins to rail and rage at both tribes.

4. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?
(a) A Christian community and missionary training school in Alberta, Canada.
(b) A large university in Nebraska which was founded by Mennonites.
(c) A school which teaches English and Dutch to the children from the Sawi culture.
(d) A far right think tank in western Kansas.

5. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?
(a) Hadi is blind and Richardson feels very sorry for him.
(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 the only Sawi who can read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?

2. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?

3. What is the weather like on the day the Richardson family arrives at their new home?

4. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?

5. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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