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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 does Richardson conclude has been the reason Sawi people have survived so long?
(a) Their habit of living in small, isolated groups.
(b) Their habit of aggressive fighting.
(c) Their habit of fishing and hunting.
(d) Their habit of bathing in the river.

2. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?
(a) Kondahara!
(b) Konahario!
(c) Aloha!
(d) Alleluia!

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

4. Why is it so difficult for the Sawi people to convert to Richardson's faith?
(a) They have no spiritual life.
(b) They trust the ancient Sawi culture which is all they have ever known.
(c) They cannot speak English.
(d) They are cowards and afraid to try anything new.

5. Why is Richardson so excited about the peace child ritual?
(a) He believes that Christianity must have been introduced to the Sawi long ago.
(b) He is not excited; he thinks it is all very hopeless and sad.
(c) He thinks it will make a good book.
(d) It shows the Sawi people are capable of understanding and practicing peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?

2. What does Richardson believe is stopping the Sawi people from following the Christian path?

3. What does Narai do when he sees the arrival of the Richardsons?

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

5. How many pigs are being cooked on this first Christmas?

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