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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, Out of the Ancestral Cacoon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Agrabar Waterway.
(c) The Arafura Sea.
(d) The Agramenon Basin.

2. How many people can be seated at a worship service inside the new Sawidome?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) One thousand.
(d) Fifty thousand.

3. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) At the central place inside the treehouse.
(b) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.
(c) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(d) In a small boat floating on the river.

4. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) One.
(c) Twenty five.
(d) Three.

5. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.
(b) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.
(c) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(d) It means they are now an adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Warahai's mother crouched over the body of her son, covering his loins with her face and hands?

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

3. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?

4. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?

5. Why is it so difficult for the Sawi people to convert to Richardson's faith?

(see the answer key)

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