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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 do the Sawi people build for a dead person?
(a) A raft to send them down the river.
(b) A gravehouse above ground.
(c) A sarcophagus.
(d) A stone covered dugout which will sink to the bottom of the Kronkel.

2. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?
(a) To give a child in exchange for goods and services.
(b) To fatten with friendship.
(c) To leave a little on one's plate.
(d) To bow with deep respect to ones mother in law.

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

4. Which two village groups need to make peace?
(a) Kayagar and Atum.
(b) Haenam and Kamur.
(c) Pirapum and Plactoman.
(d) Olada and Naydu.

5. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?
(a) Saintly contemplative monks.
(b) Cannibalistic head hunters.
(c) Creative imaginative artists.
(d) Modern aggressive innovators.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?

2. In 1963 who does the Dutch government begin to give control of the Netherlands New Guinea to?

3. How many people can be seated at a worship service inside the new Sawidome?

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

5. What does the Sawi expression "hahap kaman" mean?

(see the answer key)

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