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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 vessel does the Richardson family use to arrive at their new home?
(a) A plane.
(b) A speedboat.
(c) A long dugout canoe.
(d) A rowboat with diesel motor.

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

3. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?
(a) The place of death.
(b) Land without time.
(c) Waiting until the sun comes up.
(d) Mission State.

4. How many piers are driven into the jungle floor to build Richardson's house?
(a) Forty-five piers are placed.
(b) There are no piers; it is a small platform that the trailer sat on.
(c) Sixteen piers are placed.
(d) Two piers are placed.

5. What do the Sawi warriors do when they meet Don Richardson and John McCain for the first time?
(a) They launch an attack of arrows.
(b) Most of the warriors faint and have to be revived with camphor.
(c) They panic, many of them leaping out of the canoes; everyone trembling.
(d) They stand in their canoes completely and totally still.

Short Answer Questions

1. What might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?

2. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?

3. How does Don Richardson find a way into the hearts and minds of the tribe?

4. What is the weather like on the day the Richardson family arrives at their new home?

5. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

(see the answer key)

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