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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the elders Kigo, Hatu and Numu volunteer to make contact with the Tuans?
(a) The elders are confused and don't know what they are doing.
(b) The elders are near death anyway and think they have little to lose
(c) These elders have learned some of the Auyu language and think maybe that is what the Tuans speak.
(d) The elders are forced by their tribesmen to do this.

2. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?
(a) Kauwan is Yae's brother and has no power.
(b) Kauwan has been taken away to the jungle by his family.
(c) Kauwan is deaf and cannot hear Yae's cry of fear.
(d) Kauwan has been promised a wife by one of the village men.

3. What does the high pitched command signal should happen?
(a) It signals that the drums should begin.
(b) It signals that the Richardsons should be attacked and brought down.
(c) It signals that everyone should go home.
(d) It signals that the children should ask for food and water.

4. What does "Tuwi asonai makaerin" mean?
(a) To leave a little on one's plate.
(b) To bow with deep respect to ones mother in law.
(c) To give a child in exchange for goods and services.
(d) To fatten with friendship.

5. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.
(b) To put one's head underwater completely and drink.
(c) The river water must never be drunk. It is full of germs.
(d) To drink it with a straw-like tool made of sago leaves.

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

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

8. What time of day does the Richardson family arrive at their new home?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Sunset.
(c) Noon.
(d) Daybreak.

9. What do Sawi use to build the floors of their homes?
(a) Linoleum.
(b) Split palm tree bark.
(c) Clay from the riverbank.
(d) Shale.

10. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?
(a) Aloha!
(b) Kondahara!
(c) Konahario!
(d) Alleluia!

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?

2. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?

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

4. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?

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

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