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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?
(a) X-rays.
(b) Prayer.
(c) Penicillin.
(d) Aspirin.

2. What is the fourth level of despair?
(a) Sinking the dead person's body into the Kronkel river.
(b) Throwing oneself, briefly, upon the death bonfire.
(c) Eating food with the hand that had been plunged into the dead person's body.
(d) Throwing oneself into the grave with the dead body.

3. How many people can be seated at a worship service inside the new Sawidome?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Fifty thousand.
(c) One hundred.
(d) One thousand.

4. In 1963 who does the Dutch government begin to give control of the Netherlands New Guinea to?
(a) Through the League of Nations they give control to the United States.
(b) Through the Geneva Accord they give control to the Sawi.
(c) Through the United Nations they transfer control to Indonesian sovereignty.
(d) Through the World Court they give control to Australia.

5. What does Richardson build after five years among the Sawi to replace his small thatchbox home?
(a) A 14-bedroom hotel.
(b) A riverboat home.
(c) A three-bedroom dwelling.
(d) An underground bunker.

6. What does Richardson organize to celebrate his first Christmas with the Sawi?
(a) A large scale inter-village feast.
(b) A huge ironwood tree covered with ornaments.
(c) A Bible study for a few close Sawi friends.
(d) A trip for his family to Australia.

7. In Sawi what does "cool water" mean?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Peace.
(c) Cold nights.
(d) Shocking truth.

8. What do Aham and Richardson have in common?
(a) They have nothing in common.
(b) They both believe in a spiritual world, and they both talk to spirit/god.
(c) They are both over 60 years of age.
(d) They both believe that Warahari is dead.

9. Do the Sawi men believe their children are strong?
(a) No, they know their own children are very fragile.
(b) Yes, they believe their own children can withstand anything.
(c) They do not care about their own children.
(d) Yes, they believe their own children are immortal.

10. Near the end of the book, Richardson describes a new place where the mission plane lands. What is that place?
(a) The long sago bridge.
(b) An ocean carrier.
(c) A floating bridge on the Kronkel.
(d) The recently built airstrip.

11. What is the second level of despair?
(a) Dressing the dead person's body in colorful clothing.
(b) Covering oneself with Sago thorns and rolling on the ground.
(c) Starting a bonfire at the death camp.
(d) Dancing under the gravehouse platform as maggots and rotting flesh rain down.

12. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?
(a) Between the modern world and the stone age world.
(b) Between the savagery and the gospel of peace.
(c) Between God and Satan.
(d) Between women and men.

13. What gifts are given among the Sawi people at this first Christmas?
(a) Bibles.
(b) Sago, beetle grubs and wild pork.
(c) Gold coins.
(d) Dugout canoes.

14. What fruits and flowers do the missionaries introduce to the Sawi?
(a) Watermelon, oranges and grapefruit.
(b) Apple trees, green beans, potatoes and tomatoes.
(c) Peaches, sago and apricots.
(d) Pineapple, coconut palms, lemon trees and hibiscus.

15. Who stands at the front of the battle, on the front line, so to speak?
(a) The women.
(b) The young teenage boys.
(c) The most experienced warriors.
(d) The jesters and clowns are sent to the front to distract.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reads the Christmas scripture at the worship service?

2. What do the women do during battle?

3. Who is willing to give up his only son?

4. What vision does Aham have which convinces the Sawi villagers that there is no hope for Warahai?

5. How does Mavo respond to the protection and kindness which Richardson shows to him?

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