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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. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?
(a) The kidari has dangerous currents which should be avoided.
(b) The kidari is the longest straight stretch of the river.
(c) The kidari is a waterfall which falls some 500 feet.
(d) The kidari has many types of exotic fish which visit it.

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

3. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?
(a) The Atlantic Ocean.
(b) The Agrabar Waterway.
(c) The Agramenon Basin.
(d) The Arafura Sea.

4. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?
(a) The men must fight to obtain wives since there are so few women.
(b) Tuans are supernatural and do not need to procreate.
(c) Tuans live forever and therefore do not need offspring.
(d) Tuans kill and eat their women.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?

2. What does Richardson like about the possibility of building on the kidari?

3. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?

4. Who is building Richardson's house?

5. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the ecstatic Sawi communal expression of "hahap kaman" so deeply affect Richardson?

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

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

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

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

8. What response does Richardson offer to those who would advocate that these remote tribes need to be left alone and not contacted?

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

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

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