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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. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?
(a) Sao has developed early dementia.
(b) Sao is mentally ill.
(c) Sao has malaria.
(d) Sao has an immune system infection similar to AIDS.

2. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?
(a) Between God and Satan.
(b) Between the modern world and the stone age world.
(c) Between the savagery and the gospel of peace.
(d) Between women and men.

3. Why is Warahai's mother crouched over the body of her son, covering his loins with her face and hands?
(a) She is protecting them from being disfigured by the village.
(b) The Sawi believe that a soul sometimes lingers in the generative organs.
(c) She is performing "atama karun," an ancient Sawi ritual.
(d) She is trying to see if her son is still breathing.

4. How is wild boar meat carried out of the jungle?
(a) In a bamboo box strapped on the hunter's shoulders and head.
(b) On a large platter of ironwood, carried on the hunter's head.
(c) In a wheelbarrow.
(d) In a woven sago frond pack.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Tumdu women use as flour in their cooking?

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

4. Why is it so important to Richardson that the patriarchs, the older men, convert to Christianity?

5. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?

(see the answer key)

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