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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Gods From the Sky.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?
(a) They move to another location.
(b) They work with their neighbors and replace all the poles.
(c) They lower their houses to the ground.
(d) They replace them with steel girders.

2. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?
(a) His own wife.
(b) A peace child.
(c) A thousand dollars.
(d) A gun and sword.

3. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?
(a) He is marrying the chief's daughter and will soon be related to the tribe.
(b) He is carrying a concealed gun so that if there is trouble, he can defend himself.
(c) He is bringing them steel axes and a chain saw.
(d) He has been visiting them for seven months and they have been very friendly and warm.

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

5. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?
(a) Seven hundred and fifty.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Patches?

2. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?

3. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?

4. What is the most powerful family relationship in Sawi culture?

5. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?

(see the answer key)

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