1. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.
(b) To drink it with a straw-like tool made of sago leaves.
(c) The river water must never be drunk. It is full of germs.
(d) To put one's head underwater completely and drink.

2. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?
(a) Because only the older men are cannibals in the Sawi tribe.
(b) Because they are not allowed to eat brains.
(c) Because they all had to go and swim in the river until nightfall.
(d) Because it is forbidden for them to hear the sound of a skull breaking open.

3. What does Richardson feel when he first shakes hands with a Sawi elder?
(a) That these people are not to be trusted...ever...
(b) That they are equally human...flesh and blood...men.
(c) That the Sawi will never understand the way of the modern world.
(d) That the Sawi are very short but quite strong.

4. What life forms must the Richardson family learn to live with inside their new home?
(a) Mosquitoes, cockroaches, crickets, flies, rats, lizards, bats and birds.
(b) Worms, pythons, crocodiles, lions, jungle bears and hippos.
(c) Dogs, cats, parakeets, goats, cows, chickens and ducks.
(d) Elephants, giraffes, picolos, vultures, eagles and griffins.

5. What do Sawi men smoke in their pipes?
(a) Dried mushrooms.
(b) Ground bones of wild boars.
(c) Sago leaves.
(d) Tobacco leaves.