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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, A Baptism of Strangeness.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?
(a) The kidari has dangerous currents which should be avoided.
(b) The kidari is the longest straight stretch of the river.
(c) The kidari is a waterfall which falls some 500 feet.
(d) The kidari has many types of exotic fish which visit it.
2. What is the Ironwood Curtain?
(a) It refers to that curtain which hangs between life and death.
(b) It refers to the border of iron which the Sawi people have erected around their territory.
(c) It means passing from the life of easy and plenty, where there is much light, to the darker world of the jungle.
(d) It means passing into the jungle that is full of trees which are called ironwood because of their dense hard wood.
3. Who is waiting at the new homesite when the Richardsons arrive?
(a) No one is waiting. The whole area is deserted.
(b) Hato and Yae.
(c) Two hundred armed warriors and many women and children,
(d) John McCain and his wife.
4. What is a good strategy for a Sawi village that wants to take revenge against another village?
(a) To send many young women to the village and establish family ties.
(b) To let wild animals loose near the village they want to harm.
(c) To move far away and not look back.
(d) To make an alliance with a neutral village who will then help.
5. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?
(a) They drive from Canada to Mexico, take a small yacht across the Pacific Ocean and land in New Guinea.
(b) They sail from Vancouver on the ship "Oriana" and then fly into the interior.
(c) They fly to Russia and then to Zurich and then to Australia and finally take a sailboat up to New Guinea.
(d) They fly from New York City on the Concorde and then drive into the Sawi territory.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?
2. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?
3. What is "saravon"?
4. What does Don Richardson interpret the tumult of Sawi activity as?
5. What might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?
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