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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 stone covered dugout which will sink to the bottom of the Kronkel.
(c) A gravehouse above ground.
(d) A sarcophagus.

2. What is Aham's role in the village?
(a) She is a sorceresses who has visions of spiritual events.
(b) She is the leader of the women.
(c) She is a naturopath.
(d) She is a herbalist.

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

4. What insult is hurtled at a Haenam youth which almost starts a serious battle?
(a) He is called "weird old man."
(b) He is called "slow as mud."
(c) He is called "tuan like."
(d) He is called "lizard-skin."

5. Why do the young boys spread the news that the Richardson family is eating brains?
(a) Because the Richardsons frighten them.
(b) Because they are lying to get attention.
(c) Because their macaroni supper looks like brains.
(d) Because Richardsons tell the boys this to frighten them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the Sawi villagers constructed around the Richardson home?

2. Who comes in a dugout to help the stranded party?

3. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?

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

5. What gifts are given among the Sawi people at this first Christmas?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Biakadon?

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

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

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

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

10. What is "aumamay"?

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