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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Richardson shocked by the dead man Warahai's condition?
(a) Warahai is still conscious, has a faint pulse and is breathing.
(b) Warahai has been eaten by crocodiles.
(c) Warahai has been dead many days.
(d) Warahai has been wrapped in sago leaves.

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

6. Why is it so difficult for the Sawi people to convert to Richardson's faith?
(a) They are cowards and afraid to try anything new.
(b) They have no spiritual life.
(c) They trust the ancient Sawi culture which is all they have ever known.
(d) They cannot speak English.

7. What is the first level of despair?
(a) Hiking three miles to a nearby death camp.
(b) Waiting for nine days and nights as the body decomposes in the grave house.
(c) Tearing one's clothing and covering oneself in ashes.
(d) Sleeping with the body of the person who has died.

8. What problems does Richardson face personally as he starts his sixth month of living with the Sawi people?
(a) Government interference and high taxes.
(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) Daily threats of violence to his family, his home being set on fire and his mother dying back in Canada.

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

10. 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.

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

12. How many pigs are being cooked on this first Christmas?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Five.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Fifteen.

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

14. What two villages are fighting on the Tuan's doorstep?
(a) The Kamur and Haenam villages are in battle.
(b) The Kayangar and the Sawi are in battle.
(c) The Harasiomi and the Kaondahari are fighting.
(d) The Sawi are fighting the Tuan.

15. Who comes in a dugout to help the stranded party?
(a) Another Tuan missionary.
(b) The outcast of the Kamur tribe, Natato.
(c) Mavo's own father, Taeri, and his daughter Aray.
(d) The Dutch government authorities.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the young boys spread the news that the Richardson family is eating brains?

2. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?

3. What does Richardson conclude has been the reason Sawi people have survived so long?

4. What is the second level of despair?

5. What is Don Richardson most shocked to discover about the Sawi people?

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