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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Sawi prepare a body for burial?
(a) Anoint it with fragrant oils.
(b) Singe the skin with fire, cut off all the hair and disfigure the face.
(c) Coat it in thick mud and dry it in the sun.
(d) Wrap the body in a grass mat, bound with vines around the neck, wrist and ankles.

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

3. What is the name of Don and Carol Richardson's second child?
(a) Moses James.
(b) Shannon Douglas.
(c) Donald Paul.
(d) Luke Andrew.

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

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

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

7. 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 have nothing in common.
(d) They both believe in a spiritual world, and they both talk to spirit/god.

8. What does Richardson believe is stopping the Sawi people from following the Christian path?
(a) Fear of the power of God and Jesus.
(b) Fear of being crucified like Jesus.
(c) Fear of unfavorable reaction from the demon world.
(d) Fear of Richardson and the Tuan people.

9. Who is the woman, once beautiful, now covered in mud, weeping and wailing in grief?
(a) Carol, Don Richardson's wife.
(b) Wumi, mother of a peace child.
(c) Watiro, one of the leading women in Kamur.
(d) Mary, mother of Jesus.

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

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

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

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

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

15. What do the Sawi people call Jesus?
(a) Tawanda Tahoi, the one who is beyond reach.
(b) Tahari Tamala, the spirit who rises again.
(c) Jesus the Tailor, the one who makes us new.
(d) Tarap Tim Kodon, the perfect peace child.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the Sawi people build for a dead person?

3. How many teachers are working in the new Sawi school?

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

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

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