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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What does the tribe think of treachery and violence?
(a) They honor it as a legendary activity.
(b) They are horrified by the concepts and live only peaceful quiet lives.
(c) They have never heard of treachery and violence.
(d) They don't understand it at all.

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

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

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

7. What event shatters the air of tension between the tribes on the first day of building?
(a) A storm suddenly appears and lightning strikes the building.
(b) A boat from John McCain arrives
(c) Richardson begins to rail and rage at both tribes.
(d) The Missionary Aviation Fellowship plane arrives.

8. What does the Sawi expression "hahap kaman" mean?
(a) Dinner is ready.
(b) The warriors are about to attack.
(c) All is lost and there is no hope left.
(d) The group is full of ecstatic joy.

9. 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.

10. What effect does the tide have upon the black, algae-stained Kronkel river?
(a) The tide sends ocean salmon back to the place they spawned.
(b) The tide sends great cresting waves up the river which create chaos.
(c) The tide reverses the river's current and pushes it back into the swamp.
(d) The tide kills fish and wildlife as water rushes in and floods the area.

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

12. Who is waiting at the new homesite when the Richardsons arrive?
(a) Hato and Yae.
(b) No one is waiting. The whole area is deserted.
(c) John McCain and his wife.
(d) Two hundred armed warriors and many women and children,

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?

3. What principle does Don Richardson believe God gives him to offer the tribal people?

4. A typical stone axe would be swung 40 times to fell a tree. How many times does Hurip have to swing his steel axe to cut down the tree?

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

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