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

2. How many pigs are being cooked on this first Christmas?
(a) Five hundred.
(b) Fifty.
(c) Five.
(d) Fifteen.

3. How many teachers are working in the new Sawi school?
(a) One.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Five hundred.
(d) Fifty.

4. Who is willing to give up his only son?
(a) Hato.
(b) Richardson.
(c) Mahean.
(d) Kaiyo.

5. Mahean is the first to step forward to try to carry out the peace child ritual. What stops him?
(a) The child on his back weeps and wails until Mahean gives up.
(b) A shower of arrows stops him.
(c) His wife, Syado, takes her child and runs back to the tribe.
(d) His conscience gets the better of him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Don and Carol Richardson's second child?

2. What is the fourth level of despair?

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

4. In Sawi what does "cool water" mean?

5. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Richardson promise to teach the Sawi Christians?

5. What does Richardson see in the ritual of the Sawi peace child which gives him hope about sharing his Christian message with the villagers?

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

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

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

9. A Sawi woman dies in childbirth along with the twins that she gives birth to. What do the Sawi believe about twins?

10. How do the Sawi people know that Warahai's soul has left his body?

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