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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. Who is the patriarch of the Tumdu?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Richardson.
(c) Hatu.
(d) Kronkel.

2. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?
(a) The great-grandfather of Don Richardson's who farmed in Nebraska.
(b) An explorer and geographer who had charted Africa.
(c) A well known philosopher and theologian from Denmark.
(d) A veteran missionary who speaks at Don Richardson's college.

3. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Yae is sitting in a plane which is on its way to Istanbul.
(b) Yae is sitting by the man-made pool in his backyard.
(c) Yae is sitting in the hospital where his wife is dying in childbirth.
(d) Yae is sitting in his treehouse, forty feet above the Kronkel river.

4. What is the Eren ceremony?
(a) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the full status of matriarch.
(b) A ritual in which women cook pork and sago to celebrate the full moon.
(c) A ritual in which a girl or woman is given the jawbone of a freshly killed victim.
(d) A ceremony in which a man and woman adopt orphaned children.

5. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?
(a) A custom of men having more than one wife.
(b) A bind created by one person eating food which has touched another person's genitals.
(c) The custom of soaking food in water before eating it.
(d) One person mixing blood with another person.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the Richardsons go to live in New Guinea?

2. What effect does the tide have upon the black, algae-stained Kronkel river?

3. What is Don Richardson feeling as he steps onto the bank of the Kronkel and meets those who are waiting for them?

4. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?

5. How many tribes are in the area of New Guinea?

Short Essay Questions

1. Does Ebenezer Vine promise the students fame and fortune?

2. What are some of the fears which the Sawi people have about the Tuans?

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

4. What is Ebenezer Vine trying to accomplish with his lecture tour?

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

6. How does Kauwan display "saravon," a customary display of force, and why does he do this when Yae arrives at the village of Haenam?

7. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

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

9. Why does Yae throw water from the river into the air in order to drink it?

10. Why does Wario, Mahaen's mother-in-law, agree to be part of Kani's terrible revenge plot?

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