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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. Mahean is the first to step forward to try to carry out the peace child ritual. What stops him?
(a) His wife, Syado, takes her child and runs back to the tribe.
(b) His conscience gets the better of him.
(c) The child on his back weeps and wails until Mahean gives up.
(d) A shower of arrows stops him.

2. What does the Richardson family sleep underneath?
(a) A mosquito net.
(b) A wooden box.
(c) The open sky full of stars.
(d) A crucifix.

3. What does Richardson build his home with?
(a) He brings in a small airstream trailer and sets it on a platform.
(b) Oak, cherry, and walnut.
(c) Parts of an old boat which was moored on the river nearby.
(d) Ironwood, split palm bark, mangrove poles and sago fronds.

4. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?
(a) His own wife.
(b) A thousand dollars.
(c) A peace child.
(d) A gun and sword.

5. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?
(a) Not directly, but they encourage murder and would participate in clubbing to death wounded victims.
(b) Yes, they are very good with spears and often had better aim than their husbands.
(c) The Sawi women are involved only if they are married.
(d) Yes, they often lead the charge to the offending village.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the tribe that Don Richardson and his wife Carol live with?

2. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?

3. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?

4. How many tribes are in the area of New Guinea?

5. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?

(see the answer key)

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