1. What is the second level of despair?
(a) Covering oneself with Sago thorns and rolling on the ground.
(b) Dressing the dead person's body in colorful clothing.
(c) Starting a bonfire at the death camp.
(d) Dancing under the gravehouse platform as maggots and rotting flesh rain down.

2. What ritual does "Eyes Red with Watching" in chapter 23 describe?
(a) The Sawi ritual of grief and veneration.
(b) The Sawi ritual of sleeplessness.
(c) The Sawi ritual of baptism.
(d) The Sawi ritual of new birth.

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

4. What is "saravon"?
(a) A customary display of force meant to reassure guests that they are safe.
(b) A nutritious stew made of pork, sago and onions.
(c) A milky drink offered to the river gods every morning.
(d) The relationship between a Sawi man and his mother-in-law.

5. 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 only the older men are cannibals in the Sawi tribe.
(c) Because it is forbidden for them to hear the sound of a skull breaking open.
(d) Because they all had to go and swim in the river until nightfall.