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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. What is unique about the kidari along the Kronkel river?
(a) The kidari is the longest straight stretch of the river.
(b) The kidari has dangerous currents which should be avoided.
(c) The kidari is a waterfall which falls some 500 feet.
(d) The kidari has many types of exotic fish which visit it.

2. Where is Yae's wife, Kautap, cooking as Yae waits to go to Haenam?
(a) In the summer kitchen which is a separate building out back.
(b) In a small boat floating on the river.
(c) At the central place inside the treehouse.
(d) At the stove in her government-supplied trailer.

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

4. What brings the Sawi villagers to a sudden halt when they hear it for the first time?
(a) The explosion of a nuclear bomb.
(b) The large migration of birds which flew overhead.
(c) The diesel engines of the Dutch military boats.
(d) The song of a lark at break of day.

5. What have the Sawi villagers constructed around the Richardson home?
(a) Nadous, long fireplaces for cooking.
(b) Saurai, temporary homes.
(c) Tatious, boat docks.
(d) Satanoun, battle structures.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Richardson deal with the Kayagar chief, Yae, when the chief begins to speak loudly?

2. What is Don Richardson feeling as he steps onto the bank of the Kronkel and meets those who are waiting for them?

3. What does the Richardson family sleep underneath?

4. What is the name of the tribe that Don Richardson and his wife Carol live with?

5. What flag flies on the deck of the "super canoe"?

(see the answer key)

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