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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. Who is Patches?
(a) The cook who makes fried sago worms for Richardson's family.
(b) The translator who makes "patchwork" of the early communications with the Sawi tribe.
(c) The nickname for Richardson's young son.
(d) The fierce watchdog that lives with the missionary family of John McCain.

2. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?
(a) He dies of starvation.
(b) The women and children of the Haenam village.
(c) The dogs of the village.
(d) His mother-in-law.

3. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?
(a) Between God and Satan.
(b) Between the savagery and the gospel of peace.
(c) Between the modern world and the stone age world.
(d) Between women and men.

4. What effect does the tide have upon the black, algae-stained Kronkel river?
(a) The tide reverses the river's current and pushes it back into the swamp.
(b) The tide sends ocean salmon back to the place they spawned.
(c) The tide sends great cresting waves up the river which create chaos.
(d) The tide kills fish and wildlife as water rushes in and floods the area.

5. What do Sawi men smoke in their pipes?
(a) Dried mushrooms.
(b) Tobacco leaves.
(c) Ground bones of wild boars.
(d) Sago leaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Richardson respect about the Sawi men?

2. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

3. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

4. What is Don Richardson most shocked to discover about the Sawi people?

5. What brings the Sawi villagers to a sudden halt when they hear it for the first time?

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