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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like on the day the Richardson family arrives at their new home?
(a) It is a hot, humid day in the jungle.
(b) It is a cold night, almost freezing, when they arrive.
(c) It is a rainy tropical day during the monsoon.
(d) It is a very windy, chilly day on the high plains.

2. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?
(a) A veteran missionary who speaks at Don Richardson's college.
(b) An explorer and geographer who had charted Africa.
(c) A well known philosopher and theologian from Denmark.
(d) The great-grandfather of Don Richardson's who farmed in Nebraska.

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

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

5. What flag flies on the deck of the "super canoe"?
(a) The Dutch flag.
(b) The stars and stripes of the United States.
(c) The Irian Jaya flag.
(d) The flag of pirates.

6. What is a good strategy for a Sawi village that wants to take revenge against another village?
(a) To make an alliance with a neutral village who will then help.
(b) To move far away and not look back.
(c) To let wild animals loose near the village they want to harm.
(d) To send many young women to the village and establish family ties.

7. What does Richardson feel when he first shakes hands with a Sawi elder?
(a) That the Sawi will never understand the way of the modern world.
(b) That the Sawi are very short but quite strong.
(c) That they are equally human...flesh and blood...men.
(d) That these people are not to be trusted...ever...

8. What do the Sawi warriors bring on their first trading mission to Pirimapun?
(a) Guns, ammunition, spears and dynamite.
(b) Elaborately carved masks and feather-adorned costumes.
(c) Pottery made from dark red riverbank clay.
(d) Sago flour, beetle grubs, lori parrots and chickens.

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

10. What do the Tuans reportedly have to prevent fever and heal sores?
(a) Fire breathing guns.
(b) Antibiotics and oxygen tanks.
(c) Animal totems.
(d) Witchcraft called "obat."

11. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?
(a) Twenty five.
(b) Thirteen.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

12. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?
(a) Because of lice.
(b) Because it would show how wise she was.
(c) Because her husband has died.
(d) Because it customary for a bride to have a shaved head.

13. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?
(a) She is filled with remorse and grief and refuses to take it.
(b) She cries out in jubilation and dances to celebrate her great honor.
(c) She takes the bone and grinds it into fine dust and then spreads it atop the river.
(d) She promises that she will send it to Yae's wife as an expression of her sympathy.

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

15. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?
(a) They replace them with steel girders.
(b) They move to another location.
(c) They lower their houses to the ground.
(d) They work with their neighbors and replace all the poles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patriarch of the Tumdu?

2. Why do the elders Kigo, Hatu and Numu volunteer to make contact with the Tuans?

3. What does Don Richardson interpret the tumult of Sawi activity as?

4. What does seven-month-old Stephen think of his first journey down the Kronkel river?

5. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?

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