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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 name them the same name, as they came at the same time.
(d) They kill the second twin, believing it to be an evil spirit.

2. What is Don Richardson's first order of business with the Sawi tribe?
(a) To establish trading alliances with neighboring tribes.
(b) To learn the Sawi language.
(c) To convert the children to Christianity.
(d) To cure the sick and heal the lame.

3. Why is Hato so filled with grief?
(a) Hato had given a peace child to the Kayagar and they killed and ate the child.
(b) Hato had seen many of his children die of malaria.
(c) Hato was in grief over the loss of his place as chief.
(d) Hato had lost his parents recently.

4. What does Don Richardson respect about the Sawi men?
(a) They are well traveled and have been all over the world.
(b) They are accomplished naturalists and have great courage and survival skills.
(c) They are excellent writers and have captured their history in many books.
(d) He does not respect anything about the Sawi men.

5. Who is the first patriarch in the Sawi tribe to convert to Christianity?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Mavo.
(c) Hato.
(d) Richardson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Myao Kondon" mean?

2. What is the fourth level of despair?

3. What does Richardson believe is stopping the Sawi people from following the Christian path?

4. Why does Amio want Hurip to die?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is "aumamay"?

2. What is the Sawidome?

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

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

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

6. What does Kimi come to do to Warahai?

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

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

9. Who is God's "Tarop"?

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

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