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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 word that Sawi greet one another with?
(a) Aloha!
(b) Kondahara!
(c) Alleluia!
(d) Konahario!

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

3. What machine does the Richardson family have that is very mysterious to the Sawi people?
(a) A blender.
(b) A gas-powered washing machine.
(c) A low flying helicopter.
(d) A food processor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the elders Kigo, Hatu and Numu volunteer to make contact with the Tuans?

2. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?

3. What problems does Richardson face personally as he starts his sixth month of living with the Sawi people?

4. What does Hurip trade to obtain his "kapak," his steel ax?

5. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?

(see the answer key)

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