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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Cool Water Tomorrow.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many pounds does the average wild boar weigh?
(a) 1,000 pounds.
(b) 10 pounds.
(c) 50 pounds.
(d) 180 pounds.

2. How does Yae get from the tree house to the ground?
(a) Yae travels from treetop to treetop, rarely touching the ground.
(b) Yae swings from vines to a nearby tree and then jumps down.
(c) Yae jumps into a soft pile of leaves.
(d) Yae climbs down a long, vine-fastened ladder.

3. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?
(a) To put one's head underwater completely and drink.
(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 toss each scoop of water in the air and catch it in one's mouth.

4. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?
(a) An explorer and geographer who had charted Africa.
(b) The great-grandfather of Don Richardson's who farmed in Nebraska.
(c) A veteran missionary who speaks at Don Richardson's college.
(d) A well known philosopher and theologian from Denmark.

5. What does the high pitched command signal should happen?
(a) It signals that the children should ask for food and water.
(b) It signals that the drums should begin.
(c) It signals that everyone should go home.
(d) It signals that the Richardsons should be attacked and brought down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?

2. What event shatters the air of tension between the tribes on the first day of building?

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

4. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?

5. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?

(see the answer key)

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