2. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?
(a) His own wife.
(b) A thousand dollars.
(c) A peace child.
(d) A gun and sword.

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

4. Who is Patches?
(a) The nickname for Richardson's young son.
(b) The cook who makes fried sago worms for Richardson's family.
(c) The fierce watchdog that lives with the missionary family of John McCain.
(d) The translator who makes "patchwork" of the early communications with the Sawi tribe.

5. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?
(a) A man and his mother-in-law.
(b) A man and his wife.
(c) Brother to brother.
(d) A mother and her grandmother.

6. What does the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?
(a) Preparing young men for battle with many feasts.
(b) Raising poultry in a kind and humane way.
(c) Forming friendships with the purpose of betrayal, murder and cannibalism.
(d) Raising beef cattle in jungle areas using grain and vegetables.

7. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?
(a) Tuans are supernatural and do not need to procreate.
(b) Tuans kill and eat their women.
(c) Tuans live forever and therefore do not need offspring.
(d) The men must fight to obtain wives since there are so few women.

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

9. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?
(a) A school which teaches English and Dutch to the children from the Sawi culture.
(b) A large university in Nebraska which was founded by Mennonites.
(c) A far right think tank in western Kansas.
(d) A Christian community and missionary training school in Alberta, Canada.

10. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?
(a) He is marrying the chief's daughter and will soon be related to the tribe.
(b) He is bringing them steel axes and a chain saw.
(c) He has been visiting them for seven months and they have been very friendly and warm.
(d) He is carrying a concealed gun so that if there is trouble, he can defend himself.

11. What brings the Sawi villagers to a sudden halt when they hear it for the first time?
(a) The large migration of birds which flew overhead.
(b) The explosion of a nuclear bomb.
(c) The song of a lark at break of day.
(d) The diesel engines of the Dutch military boats.

12. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?
(a) She believes Yae's spirit will need the ax in the world of the dead.
(b) She is angry at him for going to Haenam.
(c) She doesn't want anyone else to use it.
(d) She is mad with grief.

13. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?
(a) He dies of starvation.
(b) His mother-in-law.
(c) The dogs of the village.
(d) The women and children of the Haenam village.

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

15. What do the Tumdu women use as flour in their cooking?
(a) Bamboo plant flour.
(b) Ironwood tree flour.
(c) Sago palm flour.
(d) Whole wheat flour.