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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does "gefam ason" mean?
(a) Paddling through the storm.
(b) Tasting nothing.
(c) The end of the world.
(d) Touching the stench.

4. What does Hato say about God?
(a) "God must have been sad just like me."
(b) "God does not know what he is doing."
(c) "God must not care for us if such things happen."
(d) "God must be very, very far away."

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

6. What brings a time of peace to the Sawi tribes?
(a) The Tuans give many gifts.
(b) The river is full of fish.
(c) The peace child exchange between two villages.
(d) The weather is very calm.

7. 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) A floating bridge on the Kronkel.
(c) The recently built airstrip.
(d) An ocean carrier.

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

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) Yes, they believe their own children are immortal.
(d) They do not care about their own children.

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

11. What machine does the Richardson family have that is very mysterious to the Sawi people?
(a) A blender.
(b) A food processor.
(c) A low flying helicopter.
(d) A gas-powered washing machine.

12. 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) Monsoon rains which washed away the foundation of his home.
(d) Government interference and high taxes.

13. Who is willing to give up his only son?
(a) Hato.
(b) Richardson.
(c) Mahean.
(d) Kaiyo.

14. Which two village groups need to make peace?
(a) Haenam and Kamur.
(b) Pirapum and Plactoman.
(c) Kayagar and Atum.
(d) Olada and Naydu.

15. What does Richardson believe keeps true peace from existing among Sawi people?
(a) The fact that they are illiterate.
(b) The possibility of tusi asonai man.
(c) The inability of the Sawi people to understand what peace is.
(d) The belief of the Sawi people in demons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Richardson respect about the Sawi men?

2. How many pigs are being cooked on this first Christmas?

3. What gifts are given among the Sawi people at this first Christmas?

4. Why is Hato so filled with grief?

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

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