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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 time of day does the Richardson family arrive at their new home?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Noon.
(c) Sunset.
(d) Daybreak.

2. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?
(a) They fly to Russia and then to Zurich and then to Australia and finally take a sailboat up to New Guinea.
(b) They sail from Vancouver on the ship "Oriana" and then fly into the interior.
(c) They drive from Canada to Mexico, take a small yacht across the Pacific Ocean and land in New Guinea.
(d) They fly from New York City on the Concorde and then drive into the Sawi territory.

3. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?
(a) Because it is forbidden for them to hear the sound of a skull breaking open.
(b) Because they are not allowed to eat brains.
(c) Because only the older men are cannibals in the Sawi tribe.
(d) Because they all had to go and swim in the river until nightfall.

4. Why is Yae going on a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?
(a) He is trying to forge an alliance between his village, Mauro, and Haenam.
(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 campaigning for political office and needs the support of Haenam villagers.

5. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?
(a) They work with their neighbors and replace all the poles.
(b) They lower their houses to the ground.
(c) They move to another location.
(d) They replace them with steel girders.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?

2. Where is Netherlands New Guinea, or Irian Jaya as it is later called, located in relation to Australia?

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

4. Who is the patriarch of the Tumdu?

5. What does Hurip trade to obtain his "kapak," his steel ax?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the boar killed?

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

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

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. Does Ebenezer Vine promise the students fame and fortune?

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

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

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

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