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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What problems does Richardson face personally as he starts his sixth month of living with the Sawi people?
(a) Daily threats of violence to his family, his home being set on fire and his mother dying back in Canada.
(b) Depression, Stephen's malaria, his wife's pregnancy and a general loss of hope.
(c) Government interference and high taxes.
(d) Monsoon rains which washed away the foundation of his home.

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

3. What have the Sawi villagers constructed around the Richardson home?
(a) Satanoun, battle structures.
(b) Saurai, temporary homes.
(c) Tatious, boat docks.
(d) Nadous, long fireplaces for cooking.

4. What does Don Richardson respect about the Sawi men?
(a) They are excellent writers and have captured their history in many books.
(b) He does not respect anything about the Sawi men.
(c) They are accomplished naturalists and have great courage and survival skills.
(d) They are well traveled and have been all over the world.

5. What are the two pillars Richardson refers to?
(a) The pillars of the Old Testament and the New Testament.
(b) The pillars of wealth and fame.
(c) The center two pillars which support the manhouse.
(d) The pillar of treacherous violence and the pillar of the peace child.

6. Why are the Sawi people so upset with Don Richardson over his actions with Warahai?
(a) Richardson is trying to save a bad man.
(b) Richardson is keeping the village from going on a wild boar hunt.
(c) Richardson is not allowing the rain gods to bring nourishment to the jungle.
(d) Richardson is not allowing them to carry out their death and dying rituals.

7. When the Richardsons, Winifred and Mavo fall off the capsized dugout and into the Kronkel river, what happens first?
(a) Winifred and Mavo go back to the dugout and Mavo climbs on top of it.
(b) Richardson rescues Stephen.
(c) Crocodiles immediately surround them.
(d) Carol swims to the bank with her infant child.

8. In the Sawi language, how many tenses does each verb have?
(a) Each verb has 103 tenses.
(b) Each verb has 3 tenses.
(c) Each verb has only 1 tense.
(d) Each verb has 19 tenses.

9. Who is Biakadon?
(a) The leader of the Kumar village.
(b) The legendary god of the sea.
(c) The infant son of Kaiyo and Wumi.
(d) The young man who works for the Richardsons.

10. What life forms must the Richardson family learn to live with inside their new home?
(a) Worms, pythons, crocodiles, lions, jungle bears and hippos.
(b) Mosquitoes, cockroaches, crickets, flies, rats, lizards, bats and birds.
(c) Dogs, cats, parakeets, goats, cows, chickens and ducks.
(d) Elephants, giraffes, picolos, vultures, eagles and griffins.

11. Where are dead bodies interred in a Sawi village?
(a) They are sunk in the Kronkel river just downstream of the village.
(b) In a small, coffin-sized gravehouse, elevated five to fifteen feet above ground.
(c) In a communal grave, on the edge of the village.
(d) Deep in the earth, directly under the family longhouse.

12. What do the women do during battle?
(a) The women throw stones and sharp rocks at the enemy.
(b) The women taunt their own men to be more brave.
(c) The women shield the children.
(d) The women curse and bang their pounding sticks on the ground.

13. 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.

14. Why do the young boys spread the news that the Richardson family is eating brains?
(a) Because Richardsons tell the boys this to frighten them.
(b) Because their macaroni supper looks like brains.
(c) Because the Richardsons frighten them.
(d) Because they are lying to get attention.

15. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?
(a) "Es! That's enough!"
(b) "Get out of my front yard!"
(c) "There is another way!"
(d) "No more steel tools unless you stop!"

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Richardson believe is stopping the Sawi people from following the Christian path?

3. Why is it so important to Richardson that the patriarchs, the older men, convert to Christianity?

4. Do the Sawi men believe their children are strong?

5. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?

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