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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. How do the Sawi prepare a body for burial?
(a) Singe the skin with fire, cut off all the hair and disfigure the face.
(b) Wrap the body in a grass mat, bound with vines around the neck, wrist and ankles.
(c) Anoint it with fragrant oils.
(d) Coat it in thick mud and dry it in the sun.

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

3. What ritual does "Eyes Red with Watching" in chapter 23 describe?
(a) The Sawi ritual of baptism.
(b) The Sawi ritual of sleeplessness.
(c) The Sawi ritual of new birth.
(d) The Sawi ritual of grief and veneration.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "my liver trembles" refer to?

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

4. Why is Hato so filled with grief?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Carol's warm wash water have black specks in it?

3. What does Kimi come to do to Warahai?

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

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

6. Who is Biakadon?

7. What surprises Richardson about the Sawi language?

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

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

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

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