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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Agramenon Basin.
(c) The Agrabar Waterway.
(d) The Arafura Sea.

6. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?
(a) A man and his mother-in-law.
(b) A mother and her grandmother.
(c) Brother to brother.
(d) A man and his wife.

7. 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 kills fish and wildlife as water rushes in and floods the area.
(c) The tide reverses the river's current and pushes it back into the swamp.
(d) The tide sends great cresting waves up the river which create chaos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. How does Richardson deal with the Kayagar chief, Yae, when the chief begins to speak loudly?
(a) Richardson hits Yae very hard with a pile driver.
(b) Richardson gets the Sawi chief to fight Yae.
(c) Richardson puts his hand on Yae's shoulder and speaks English in a soothing tone.
(d) Richardson gets on his knees and prays loudly for peace.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the tribe think of treachery and violence?

2. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?

3. How does Don Richardson find a way into the hearts and minds of the tribe?

4. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

5. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in our present world?

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