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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, The Living Dead.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?
(a) He shoots a shot gun in their direction.
(b) He lights a kerosene lamp in the darkness.
(c) He eats brains.
(d) He throws a handful of firecrackers out of the front door.

2. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.
(b) It refers to the border of iron which the Sawi people have erected around their territory.
(c) It means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.
(d) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.

3. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?
(a) Because they are not allowed to eat brains.
(b) Because it is forbidden for them to hear the sound of a skull breaking open.
(c) Because they all had to go and swim in the river until nightfall.
(d) Because only the older men are cannibals in the Sawi tribe.

4. What are the two new tools Richardson gives the men of Tumdu?
(a) A steel fish gutting machine.
(b) A radio and camera.
(c) A steel hammer and saw.
(d) A steel knife and steel machete.

5. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?
(a) The hip socket.
(b) The polished skull.
(c) The entire skeleton.
(d) The leg bones.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?

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

3. What does Richardson conclude has been the reason Sawi people have survived so long?

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

5. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?

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