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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 is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?
(a) One person mixing blood with another person.
(b) A custom of men having more than one wife.
(c) The custom of soaking food in water before eating it.
(d) A bind created by one person eating food which has touched another person's genitals.

2. What is a good strategy for a Sawi village that wants to take revenge against another village?
(a) To let wild animals loose near the village they want to harm.
(b) To make an alliance with a neutral village who will then help.
(c) To send many young women to the village and establish family ties.
(d) To move far away and not look back.

3. What do the Tuans give the elders who come out to meet them for the first time?
(a) Necklaces made of brightly colored beads.
(b) A bible, radio and a flashlight.
(c) Matches, razorblades and fishing equipment.
(d) Pens, paper and stamps.

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

5. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.
(b) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(c) It means they are now an adult.
(d) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?

2. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

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

4. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?

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

(see the answer key)

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