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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. Near the end of the book, Richardson describes a new place where the mission plane lands. What is that place?
(a) A floating bridge on the Kronkel.
(b) An ocean carrier.
(c) The long sago bridge.
(d) The recently built airstrip.

2. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?
(a) Because they all had to go and swim in the river until nightfall.
(b) Because they are not allowed to eat brains.
(c) Because only the older men are cannibals in the Sawi tribe.
(d) Because it is forbidden for them to hear the sound of a skull breaking open.

3. Who is Biakadon?
(a) The infant son of Kaiyo and Wumi.
(b) The leader of the Kumar village.
(c) The legendary god of the sea.
(d) The young man who works for the Richardsons.

4. What is the first thing Warahi says when he comes out of his coma?
(a) "O Mother, don't be sad."
(b) "Where am I?"
(c) "I am hungry."
(d) "Help me up, I must walk."

5. Who reads the Christmas scripture at the worship service?
(a) Yae.
(b) Carol Richardson.
(c) Richardson's son, Stephen.
(d) Isai, now a literate Sawi preacher.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hurip trade to obtain his "kapak," his steel ax?

2. Why is Yae going on a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?

3. What is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?

4. When the Richardsons, Winifred and Mavo fall off the capsized dugout and into the Kronkel river, what happens first?

5. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?

(see the answer key)

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