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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the Eren ceremony?
(a) A ceremony in which a man and woman adopt orphaned children.
(b) A ritual in which women cook pork and sago to celebrate the full moon.
(c) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the full status of matriarch.
(d) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the jawbone of a freshly killed victim.

4. 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 let wild animals loose near the village they want to harm.
(c) To send many young women to the village and establish family ties.
(d) To move far away and not look back.

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

6. What vessel does the Richardson family use to arrive at their new home?
(a) A plane.
(b) A speedboat.
(c) A rowboat with diesel motor.
(d) A long dugout canoe.

7. Do the Sawi warriors bring weapons with them to Pirimapun?
(a) No, it is forbidden to take any weapon on the river; the spirit gods will be angry.
(b) Yes, they take plenty of guns and ammunition to guard their goods.
(c) Yes, they line their canoes with 40 palmwood bows and hundreds of arrows.
(d) No, they are not worried about attack because they have supplies to trade.

8. What does Narai do when he sees the arrival of the Richardsons?
(a) He shoots a flaming arrow back towards the village.
(b) He blows a warning signal on his bamboo horn to the other tribespeople.
(c) He sends up a flare to the other tribespeople.
(d) He sends a warning shot on the new gun that Richardson gave him.

9. What does Don Richardson interpret the tumult of Sawi activity as?
(a) A baptism into a new and strange world.
(b) The beginning of a violent war between Sawi and Tuan.
(c) A dangerous cannibalistic ritual.
(d) A chance to learn the Sawi language.

10. Who is building Richardson's house?
(a) The Sawi women are the builders of Richardson's home.
(b) Richardson builds the home by himself.
(c) Kayagar, Atohwaem and Sawi tribes, along with Richardson and McCain build the home.
(d) Richardson brings in missionaries from all over New Guinea to build.

11. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?
(a) The Netherlands.
(b) The Americans.
(c) The Australians.
(d) The Germans.

12. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?
(a) They sail from Vancouver on the ship "Oriana" and then fly into the interior.
(b) They fly to Russia and then to Zurich and then to Australia and finally take a sailboat up to New Guinea.
(c) They fly from New York City on the Concorde and then drive into the Sawi territory.
(d) They drive from Canada to Mexico, take a small yacht across the Pacific Ocean and land in New Guinea.

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

14. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.
(b) In a small boat floating on the river.
(c) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(d) At the central place inside the treehouse.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?

3. What is "saravon"?

4. What do the Sawi warriors bring on their first trading mission to Pirimapun?

5. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?

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