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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(b) It means they are now an adult.
(c) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.
(d) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.

3. What do the Sawi people believe airplanes are?
(a) Chariots of the gods.
(b) Supernatural creatures.
(c) River spirits.
(d) German bomber planes.

4. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?
(a) Seven.
(b) Seven hundred and fifty.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

5. What does Richardson like about the possibility of building on the kidari?
(a) It is close to connections for electricity and gas.
(b) It is in the middle of a large village.
(c) It is surrounded by huge stone walls.
(d) It is a good place for the mission plane to land.

6. Why are the Kayagar men upset with Richardson when he announces his intention to build a home in Sawi territory?
(a) The Kayagar people don't want to paddle all the way down the river.
(b) The Kayagar men are afraid of the Sawi and think that Richardson will be killed.
(c) The Kayagar village of Amyam is better at building houses than the Sawi.
(d) The village of Amyam is desperate to have a Tuan live with them.

7. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?
(a) Hadi is blind and Richardson feels very sorry for him.
(b) Richardson feels that somehow Hadi is related to him.
(c) Hadi is the only Sawi who can read.
(d) He is the first Sawi that Richardson has contact with and he speaks several tribal languages.

8. What is Carol Richardson feeling as she steps onto the bank of her new home?
(a) Carol is planning her escape.
(b) Carol is excited and awed.
(c) Carol is very angry with her husband.
(d) Carol is hysterical with weeping.

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

10. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?
(a) The hip socket.
(b) The leg bones.
(c) The entire skeleton.
(d) The polished skull.

11. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?
(a) Waiting until the sun comes up.
(b) The place of death.
(c) Land without time.
(d) Mission State.

12. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?
(a) Most of the warriors faint and have to be revived with camphor.
(b) They stand in their canoes completely and totally still.
(c) They panic, many of them leaping out of the canoes; everyone trembling.
(d) They launch an attack of arrows.

13. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.
(b) It means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.
(c) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.
(d) It refers to the border of iron which the Sawi people have erected around their territory.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the two new tools Richardson gives the men of Tumdu?

3. What is the weather like on the day the Richardson family arrives at their new home?

4. What time of day does the Richardson family arrive at their new home?

5. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?

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