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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Er when he makes advances towards a girl?
(a) She accuses him of terrible things and he is banished.
(b) He is forced to marry the girl.
(c) Her male relatives shoot him with arrows.
(d) She chases him into the river.

2. How does the author describe a Sawi manhouse?
(a) As a library and movie theatre in the Sawi village.
(b) As a den of inequity.
(c) As a rundown, smoke-filled, unhealthy gathering place.
(d) As the Parthenon of Sawi culture.

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

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

5. 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.

6. How does Mavo respond to the protection and kindness which Richardson shows to him?
(a) Mavo leaves the area and travels to the nearest Dutch government outpost.
(b) Mavo converts to Christianity that evening.
(c) Mavo promises he will follow the Richardsons anywhere.
(d) Mavo gives Richardson one of his own children.

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) Crocodiles immediately surround them.
(c) Carol swims to the bank with her infant child.
(d) Richardson rescues Stephen.

8. Why is Beray not welcoming to the men from Wiyar?
(a) Beray had been banished from Wiyar.
(b) They would not let him marry into the tribe.
(c) They had cannibalized his father six years earlier.
(d) Beray had recently been attacked by the Wiyar men.

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

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

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

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

13. What do Sawi people do if twins are born?
(a) They name them the same name, as they came at the same time.
(b) They kill the second twin, believing it to be an evil spirit.
(c) They celebrate for many days, for they think it is very special.
(d) The second twin is ordained to be a tribal medicine man.

14. In the story about Jesus, who do the Sawi admire?
(a) Mary Magdalene.
(b) Jesus.
(c) Judas.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

15. Mahean is the first to step forward to try to carry out the peace child ritual. What stops him?
(a) His wife, Syado, takes her child and runs back to the tribe.
(b) The child on his back weeps and wails until Mahean gives up.
(c) A shower of arrows stops him.
(d) His conscience gets the better of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?

2. Who reads the Christmas scripture at the worship service?

3. What are the relatives of Warahai doing to his body now that they believe his soul has left?

4. Why is Richardson shocked by the dead man Warahai's condition?

5. What are the two pillars Richardson refers to?

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