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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. Why is Yae going on a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?
(a) He is campaigning for political office and needs the support of Haenam villagers.
(b) He is thinking of moving from Mauro to Haenam.
(c) He is going to visit his mother who lives in Haenam.
(d) He is trying to forge an alliance between his village, Mauro, and Haenam.

2. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?
(a) Twenty five.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Thirteen.

3. What kind of flour do the Sawi women use to make bread?
(a) Sago flour.
(b) Rice flour.
(c) Bamboo fiber flour.
(d) Whole wheat flour.

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

5. What vessel does the Richardson family use to arrive at their new home?
(a) A plane.
(b) A long dugout canoe.
(c) A rowboat with diesel motor.
(d) A speedboat.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Prairie Bible Institute?

2. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?

3. What does the Richardson family sleep underneath?

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

5. What is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the chapter title mean?

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

4. Who are the people that the author is going to work with?

5. What does the village of Mauro look like?

6. Why do the Sawi people see Kani and Mahean as the epitome of manhood?

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

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

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

10. What do the Richardsons find surprising and difficult about the Sawi people?

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