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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. How many piers are driven into the jungle floor to build Richardson's house?
(a) There are no piers; it is a small platform that the trailer sat on.
(b) Two piers are placed.
(c) Forty-five piers are placed.
(d) Sixteen piers are placed.

2. What is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?
(a) The tribal ritual of "fattening for slaughter."
(b) The tribal ritual of Jesus and the disciples.
(c) The tribal ritual of a "peace child."
(d) The tribal ritual of marriage.

3. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?
(a) She is filled with remorse and grief and refuses to take it.
(b) She takes the bone and grinds it into fine dust and then spreads it atop the river.
(c) She promises that she will send it to Yae's wife as an expression of her sympathy.
(d) She cries out in jubilation and dances to celebrate her great honor.

4. Who is waiting at the new homesite when the Richardsons arrive?
(a) Hato and Yae.
(b) John McCain and his wife.
(c) No one is waiting. The whole area is deserted.
(d) Two hundred armed warriors and many women and children,

5. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?
(a) They launch an attack of arrows.
(b) They panic, many of them leaping out of the canoes; everyone trembling.
(c) Most of the warriors faint and have to be revived with camphor.
(d) They stand in their canoes completely and totally still.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Sawi warriors bring on their first trading mission to Pirimapun?

2. What do Sawi use to build the floors of their homes?

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

4. How does Don Richardson find a way into the hearts and minds of the tribe?

5. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the key concept from Christianity that the missionary family uses to teach the Sawi people another way to live?

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

3. Why was Yae so confident and relaxed on this visit to the Haenam village?

4. What kinds of weapons does Yae take on the trip?

5. What do the young 7-month-old Stephen and the grown Sawi man Narai have in common?

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

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

8. What is Yae trying to do as he makes a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?

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

10. Why does Richardson title this chapter "Baptism of Strangeness"?

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