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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Cool Water Tomorrow.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is willing to give up his only son?
(a) Hato.
(b) Richardson.
(c) Mahean.
(d) Kaiyo.

3. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?
(a) Invisible in the jungle.
(b) Quiet and reticent.
(c) Strong willed.
(d) Musical and artistic.

4. 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?
(a) Once.
(b) 39 times.
(c) 80 times.
(d) Four times

5. How does Yae get from the tree house to the ground?
(a) Yae travels from treetop to treetop, rarely touching the ground.
(b) Yae climbs down a long, vine-fastened ladder.
(c) Yae swings from vines to a nearby tree and then jumps down.
(d) Yae jumps into a soft pile of leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?

2. What flag flies on the deck of the "super canoe"?

3. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?

4. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?

5. What does the high pitched command signal should happen?

(see the answer key)

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