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

2. Why do the Richardsons go to live in New Guinea?
(a) They think the climate would be good for their health.
(b) They have no choice; they are sent by their families.
(c) They are writing a book on ancient cultures and want to do research.
(d) They feel called to serve God as missionaries.

3. What do the Sawi people believe airplanes are?
(a) Chariots of the gods.
(b) Supernatural creatures.
(c) German bomber planes.
(d) River spirits.

4. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.
(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 means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.

5. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?
(a) The men must fight to obtain wives since there are so few women.
(b) Tuans are supernatural and do not need to procreate.
(c) Tuans kill and eat their women.
(d) Tuans live forever and therefore do not need offspring.

Short Answer Questions

1. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?

2. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?

3. 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?

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

5. What event shatters the air of tension between the tribes on the first day of building?

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