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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 year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?
(a) 1892.
(b) 2008.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1962.

2. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?
(a) Creative imaginative artists.
(b) Saintly contemplative monks.
(c) Modern aggressive innovators.
(d) Cannibalistic head hunters.

3. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It refers to the border of iron which the Sawi people have erected around their territory.
(b) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.
(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 means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.

4. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?
(a) They fly to Russia and then to Zurich and then to Australia and finally take a sailboat up to New Guinea.
(b) They drive from Canada to Mexico, take a small yacht across the Pacific Ocean and land in New Guinea.
(c) They sail from Vancouver on the ship "Oriana" and then fly into the interior.
(d) They fly from New York City on the Concorde and then drive into the Sawi territory.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Richardson family sleep underneath?

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

3. What does Richardson feel when he first shakes hands with a Sawi elder?

4. What does the tribe think of treachery and violence?

5. What do the Tuans reportedly have to prevent fever and heal sores?

(see the answer key)

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