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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, Through the Ironwood Curtain.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does eating flesh for the first time mean to Sawi children?
(a) They are crossing a major threshold necessary to known the ultimate essence of their existence.
(b) It means that they will someday go to heaven and be an angel.
(c) It means that they no longer belong to the tribe.
(d) It means they are now an adult.

2. What might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?
(a) Freshly toasted sago grubs.
(b) Lobster, recently cooked and dipped in butter.
(c) Pudding made from a bear liver.
(d) Chicken pot pie with carrots and potatoes.

3. What do the Sawi warriors bring on their first trading mission to Pirimapun?
(a) Pottery made from dark red riverbank clay.
(b) Elaborately carved masks and feather-adorned costumes.
(c) Sago flour, beetle grubs, lori parrots and chickens.
(d) Guns, ammunition, spears and dynamite.

4. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?
(a) Sao has malaria.
(b) Sao has developed early dementia.
(c) Sao is mentally ill.
(d) Sao has an immune system infection similar to AIDS.

5. What is the ancient Sawi custom of "waness"?
(a) The custom of soaking food in water before eating it.
(b) One person mixing blood with another person.
(c) A bind created by one person eating food which has touched another person's genitals.
(d) A custom of men having more than one wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?

2. What do the Tuans give the elders who come out to meet them for the first time?

3. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?

4. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?

5. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?

(see the answer key)

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