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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first thing Warahi says when he comes out of his coma?
(a) "Help me up, I must walk."
(b) "O Mother, don't be sad."
(c) "I am hungry."
(d) "Where am I?"

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

3. What ritual does "Eyes Red with Watching" in chapter 23 describe?
(a) The Sawi ritual of sleeplessness.
(b) The Sawi ritual of new birth.
(c) The Sawi ritual of grief and veneration.
(d) The Sawi ritual of baptism.

4. What is "aumamay"?
(a) The Sawi believe it is "apparent life" when the body still lives but the soul is gone.
(b) The Sawi believe it is a state of spiritual confusion.
(c) The Sawi believe it is the power of the River God Tatau visited upon the living.
(d) The Sawi believe it is the only way to go to heaven.

5. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?
(a) Quiet and reticent.
(b) Strong willed.
(c) Invisible in the jungle.
(d) Musical and artistic.

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

7. What is the third level of despair?
(a) Throwing the bones of the deceased upon the death camp bonfire.
(b) Plunging one's hand deep into the putrid body cavity of the dead person.
(c) Standing for several hours absolutely still, next to the body.
(d) Setting the dead person's body onto a river raft, loaded with stones.

8. Who reads the Christmas scripture at the worship service?
(a) Carol Richardson.
(b) Richardson's son, Stephen.
(c) Isai, now a literate Sawi preacher.
(d) Yae.

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

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

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

12. What does "my liver trembles" refer to?
(a) It means "you have aroused longing in me."
(b) It means "illness has struck me and I am near death."
(c) It means "the day has come for me to die."
(d) It means "I am extremely hungry."

13. Why is Hato so filled with grief?
(a) Hato was in grief over the loss of his place as chief.
(b) Hato had lost his parents recently.
(c) Hato had seen many of his children die of malaria.
(d) Hato had given a peace child to the Kayagar and they killed and ate the child.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Don and Carol Richardson's second child?

2. What does the word "navo" mean in Sawi?

3. Why is Warahai's mother crouched over the body of her son, covering his loins with her face and hands?

4. What does Richardson build after five years among the Sawi to replace his small thatchbox home?

5. Why is Beray not welcoming to the men from Wiyar?

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