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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 25, Out of the Ancestral Cacoon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?
(a) Saintly contemplative monks.
(b) Creative imaginative artists.
(c) Modern aggressive innovators.
(d) Cannibalistic head hunters.

2. What does Richardson conclude has been the reason Sawi people have survived so long?
(a) Their habit of living in small, isolated groups.
(b) Their habit of aggressive fighting.
(c) Their habit of fishing and hunting.
(d) Their habit of bathing in the river.

3. What is the fourth level of despair?
(a) Eating food with the hand that had been plunged into the dead person's body.
(b) Sinking the dead person's body into the Kronkel river.
(c) Throwing oneself into the grave with the dead body.
(d) Throwing oneself, briefly, upon the death bonfire.

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

5. What does the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?
(a) Raising poultry in a kind and humane way.
(b) Forming friendships with the purpose of betrayal, murder and cannibalism.
(c) Preparing young men for battle with many feasts.
(d) Raising beef cattle in jungle areas using grain and vegetables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Tuans reportedly have to prevent fever and heal sores?

2. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?

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

4. What is Carol Richardson feeling as she steps onto the bank of her new home?

5. What medicine do the Richardsons have which saves the lives of Mavu, Nair and Paha?

(see the answer key)

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