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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 Eren ceremony?
(a) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the jawbone of a freshly killed victim.
(b) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the full status of matriarch.
(c) A ritual in which women cook pork and sago to celebrate the full moon.
(d) A ceremony in which a man and woman adopt orphaned children.

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

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

4. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?
(a) 2008.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1910.

5. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?
(a) Yes, they often lead the charge to the offending village.
(b) Not directly, but they encourage murder and would participate in clubbing to death wounded victims.
(c) The Sawi women are involved only if they are married.
(d) Yes, they are very good with spears and often had better aim than their husbands.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Don Richardson interpret the tumult of Sawi activity as?

3. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?

4. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?

5. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?

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