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

2. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?
(a) Seven hundred and fifty.
(b) Seven.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

3. What is Carol Richardson feeling as she steps onto the bank of her new home?
(a) Carol is excited and awed.
(b) Carol is planning her escape.
(c) Carol is hysterical with weeping.
(d) Carol is very angry with her husband.

4. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?
(a) Mission State.
(b) Land without time.
(c) Waiting until the sun comes up.
(d) The place of death.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sawi men smoke in their pipes?

2. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?

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

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

5. What machine does the Richardson family have that is very mysterious to the Sawi people?

(see the answer key)

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