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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 Aham and Richardson have in common?
(a) They both believe that Warahari is dead.
(b) They both believe in a spiritual world, and they both talk to spirit/god.
(c) They are both over 60 years of age.
(d) They have nothing in common.

2. What does Richardson organize to celebrate his first Christmas with the Sawi?
(a) A large scale inter-village feast.
(b) A Bible study for a few close Sawi friends.
(c) A trip for his family to Australia.
(d) A huge ironwood tree covered with ornaments.

3. Who comes in a dugout to help the stranded party?
(a) The Dutch government authorities.
(b) The outcast of the Kamur tribe, Natato.
(c) Another Tuan missionary.
(d) Mavo's own father, Taeri, and his daughter Aray.

4. What is the fourth level of despair?
(a) Throwing oneself, briefly, upon the death bonfire.
(b) Eating food with the hand that had been plunged into the dead person's body.
(c) Throwing oneself into the grave with the dead body.
(d) Sinking the dead person's body into the Kronkel river.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Richardson so excited about the peace child ritual?

2. Why do the young boys spread the news that the Richardson family is eating brains?

3. What is the second level of despair?

4. In 1963 who does the Dutch government begin to give control of the Netherlands New Guinea to?

5. What is Don Richardson's first order of business with the Sawi tribe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Sawidome?

2. When the Richardsons inform the Sawi leaders that they will be moving, what surprising response do they receive?

3. What happens when the Richardson family and their Sawi friends capsized in the dugout?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What have the Sawi built in the time after modern life and Christianity have come to them?

10. What surprises Richardson about the Sawi language?

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