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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. How many pounds does the average wild boar weigh?
(a) 10 pounds.
(b) 50 pounds.
(c) 180 pounds.
(d) 1,000 pounds.

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

3. What is Don Richardson most shocked to discover about the Sawi people?
(a) That they eat no fruit.
(b) That they often get lost.
(c) That they honor goodness and light.
(d) That they honor cruelty.

4. What are the two new tools Richardson gives the men of Tumdu?
(a) A steel knife and steel machete.
(b) A steel hammer and saw.
(c) A steel fish gutting machine.
(d) A radio and camera.

5. What is a good strategy for a Sawi village that wants to take revenge against another village?
(a) To let wild animals loose near the village they want to harm.
(b) To make an alliance with a neutral village who will then help.
(c) To send many young women to the village and establish family ties.
(d) To move far away and not look back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?

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

3. What is the first thing Warahi says when he comes out of his coma?

4. What does "my liver trembles" refer to?

5. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?

(see the answer key)

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