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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 the word "navo" mean in Sawi?
(a) Help me.
(b) Goodbye.
(c) Daddy.
(d) Supper.

2. What does the Richardson family sleep underneath?
(a) A mosquito net.
(b) A crucifix.
(c) A wooden box.
(d) The open sky full of stars.

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

4. What do the Tuans reportedly have to prevent fever and heal sores?
(a) Witchcraft called "obat."
(b) Animal totems.
(c) Antibiotics and oxygen tanks.
(d) Fire breathing guns.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?

3. What does Don Richardson respect about the Sawi men?

4. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?

5. Who is Biakadon?

(see the answer key)

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