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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 do the Sawi people build for a dead person?
(a) A raft to send them down the river.
(b) A sarcophagus.
(c) A stone covered dugout which will sink to the bottom of the Kronkel.
(d) A gravehouse above ground.

2. What is the first level of despair?
(a) Hiking three miles to a nearby death camp.
(b) Waiting for nine days and nights as the body decomposes in the grave house.
(c) Tearing one's clothing and covering oneself in ashes.
(d) Sleeping with the body of the person who has died.

3. Who is the first patriarch in the Sawi tribe to convert to Christianity?
(a) Hato.
(b) Richardson.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Mavo.

4. In the story about Jesus, who do the Sawi admire?
(a) Judas.
(b) Pontius Pilate.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Mary Magdalene.

5. What is Don Richardson most shocked to discover about the Sawi people?
(a) That they honor cruelty.
(b) That they honor goodness and light.
(c) That they eat no fruit.
(d) That they often get lost.

Short Answer Questions

1. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?

2. What does Richardson believe keeps true peace from existing among Sawi people?

3. Mahean is the first to step forward to try to carry out the peace child ritual. What stops him?

4. What do the Sawi people call Jesus?

5. Why does Amio want Hurip to die?

Short Essay Questions

1. In May of 1963 what happened to the government of New Guinea?

2. What are the four levels of despair in the Sawi ritual of "gefam asan"?

3. What does Mahaen think the underlying reason for "gefam asan" is?

4. Why is the arrival of Hurip, the injured Kayagar, such a challenge?

5. What does "my liver trembles" mean in the Sawi idiom?

6. What do the Richardsons conclude about the ongoing violence which they face amid the combined Sawi village communities?

7. When Don Richardson shares the story of Jesus with the Sawi men, what is their reaction?

8. What is the custom of fighting as described in Chapter 13, War at my Door?

9. What does the phrase "cool water" mean in the Sawi language?

10. In Chapter 24, what does Richardson organize and describe that would have been impossible when he first arrived?

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