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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 raise their children to be?
(a) Musical and artistic.
(b) Invisible in the jungle.
(c) Strong willed.
(d) Quiet and reticent.

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

3. What does "Myao Kondon" mean?
(a) The thousand lakes and rivers.
(b) The end of the end.
(c) The big tree just beyond view.
(d) The greatest Spirit.

4. Why is Beray not welcoming to the men from Wiyar?
(a) They had cannibalized his father six years earlier.
(b) Beray had been banished from Wiyar.
(c) Beray had recently been attacked by the Wiyar men.
(d) They would not let him marry into the tribe.

5. What does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?
(a) "No more steel tools unless you stop!"
(b) "There is another way!"
(c) "Es! That's enough!"
(d) "Get out of my front yard!"

Short Answer Questions

1. Near the end of the book, Richardson describes a new place where the mission plane lands. What is that place?

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

3. Why is Hato so filled with grief?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is God's "Tarop"?

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

5. What surprises Richardson about the Sawi language?

6. What is the Sawidome?

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

8. What does Richardson see as the true battle in Chapter 13, War at my Door?

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

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

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