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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 Sawi people do if twins are born?
(a) The second twin is ordained to be a tribal medicine man.
(b) They celebrate for many days, for they think it is very special.
(c) They kill the second twin, believing it to be an evil spirit.
(d) They name them the same name, as they came at the same time.

2. Who stands at the front of the battle, on the front line, so to speak?
(a) The most experienced warriors.
(b) The jesters and clowns are sent to the front to distract.
(c) The women.
(d) The young teenage boys.

3. Where are dead bodies interred in a Sawi village?
(a) Deep in the earth, directly under the family longhouse.
(b) They are sunk in the Kronkel river just downstream of the village.
(c) In a communal grave, on the edge of the village.
(d) In a small, coffin-sized gravehouse, elevated five to fifteen feet above ground.

4. Near the end of the book, Richardson describes a new place where the mission plane lands. What is that place?
(a) The recently built airstrip.
(b) A floating bridge on the Kronkel.
(c) An ocean carrier.
(d) The long sago bridge.

5. How many people can be seated at a worship service inside the new Sawidome?
(a) Fifty.
(b) Fifty thousand.
(c) One hundred.
(d) One thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ritual does "Eyes Red with Watching" in chapter 23 describe?

2. What is "aumamay"?

3. What does "Myao Kondon" mean?

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

5. What are the relatives of Warahai doing to his body now that they believe his soul has left?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What surprises Richardson about the Sawi language?

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

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

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

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

9. What is "aumamay"?

10. What does Kimi come to do to Warahai?

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