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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the sea which the Kronkel river empties into?
(a) The Arafura Sea.
(b) The Agrabar Waterway.
(c) The Agramenon Basin.
(d) The Atlantic Ocean.

2. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?
(a) Alleluia!
(b) Kondahara!
(c) Aloha!
(d) Konahario!

3. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in our present world?
(a) Cross-cultural communication.
(b) Annihilation and destruction.
(c) The end of all we know.
(d) Despair and continual war.

4. How many treehouses are there, in total, in the Mauro village?
(a) One.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven hundred and fifty.

5. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?
(a) The hip socket.
(b) The entire skeleton.
(c) The leg bones.
(d) The polished skull.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

2. How is wild boar meat carried out of the jungle?

3. How many tribes are in the area of New Guinea?

4. A typical stone axe would be swung 40 times to fell a tree. How many times does Hurip have to swing his steel axe to cut down the tree?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What tools appears in Chapter 12, Patriarch of the Tumdu, which are new to Sawi culture?

2. What are the Sawi concerned about when Richardson takes a bath in the Kronkel river?

3. What is Carol Richardson's reaction to the sight of 200 armed warriors and the women and children standing massed, awaiting their arrival?

4. Why does the ecstatic Sawi communal expression of "hahap kaman" so deeply affect Richardson?

5. What do the young 7-month-old Stephen and the grown Sawi man Narai have in common?

6. Who are the people that the author is going to work with?

7. Why does Richardson title this chapter "Baptism of Strangeness"?

8. What is the key concept from Christianity that the missionary family uses to teach the Sawi people another way to live?

9. Why do the Sawi people hide in the thorn bushes when the plane comes?

10. What response does Richardson offer to those who would advocate that these remote tribes need to be left alone and not contacted?

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