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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?
(a) Sao has malaria.
(b) Sao is mentally ill.
(c) Sao has developed early dementia.
(d) Sao has an immune system infection similar to AIDS.

2. What does the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?
(a) Raising beef cattle in jungle areas using grain and vegetables.
(b) Raising poultry in a kind and humane way.
(c) Forming friendships with the purpose of betrayal, murder and cannibalism.
(d) Preparing young men for battle with many feasts.

3. What do Sawi use to build the floors of their homes?
(a) Split palm tree bark.
(b) Shale.
(c) Linoleum.
(d) Clay from the riverbank.

4. How does Yae get from the tree house to the ground?
(a) Yae swings from vines to a nearby tree and then jumps down.
(b) Yae travels from treetop to treetop, rarely touching the ground.
(c) Yae jumps into a soft pile of leaves.
(d) Yae climbs down a long, vine-fastened ladder.

5. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) In a small boat floating on the river.
(b) At the central place inside the treehouse.
(c) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(d) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?

2. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?

3. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?

4. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?

5. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Carol Richardson's reaction to the sight of 200 armed warriors and the women and children standing massed, awaiting their arrival?

2. What tools appears in Chapter 12, Patriarch of the Tumdu, which are new to Sawi culture?

3. What was the moment in which Yae realizes that he has been tricked?

4. What does the village of Mauro look like?

5. Why is the sound of the diesel boat engines so frightening?

6. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in modern life?

7. What do the elders Kigo, Hato and Numu do with the gifts they receive from the Tuans who are on the boat?

8. Why is Narai waiting in the elephant grass, in his small dugout? What is his purpose and job to do on this auspicious day?

9. The Sawi people have a saying "the spirits have accepted our skin-grease in their rivers." What does this mean?

10. Why do the Sawi people hide in the thorn bushes when the plane comes?

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