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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. How many tribes are in the area of New Guinea?
(a) Fifteen distinct tribes.
(b) An estimated four hundred.
(c) Only one.
(d) Five distinct tribes and ten which could not be classified.

2. What does Richardson feel when he first shakes hands with a Sawi elder?
(a) That these people are not to be trusted...ever...
(b) That the Sawi will never understand the way of the modern world.
(c) That the Sawi are very short but quite strong.
(d) That they are equally human...flesh and blood...men.

3. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?
(a) Richardson feels that somehow Hadi is related to him.
(b) Hadi is blind and Richardson feels very sorry for him.
(c) He is the first Sawi that Richardson has contact with and he speaks several tribal languages.
(d) Hadi is the only Sawi who can read.

4. What is Don Richardson most shocked to discover about the Sawi people?
(a) That they eat no fruit.
(b) That they honor goodness and light.
(c) That they often get lost.
(d) That they honor cruelty.

5. How many wives does the patriarch of Tumdu have?
(a) Four.
(b) None, he is a priest.
(c) One.
(d) Twenty; he is a great chief.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?

2. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?

3. In Sawi what does "cool water" mean?

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

5. What happens to Er when he makes advances towards a girl?

(see the answer key)

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