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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 are the two new tools Richardson gives the men of Tumdu?
(a) A steel fish gutting machine.
(b) A steel knife and steel machete.
(c) A steel hammer and saw.
(d) A radio and camera.

2. Why are the Kayagar men upset with Richardson when he announces his intention to build a home in Sawi territory?
(a) The Kayagar village of Amyam is better at building houses than the Sawi.
(b) The village of Amyam is desperate to have a Tuan live with them.
(c) The Kayagar people don't want to paddle all the way down the river.
(d) The Kayagar men are afraid of the Sawi and think that Richardson will be killed.

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

4. What does the woman Anai do when she hears that Yae's jawbone will be given to her?
(a) She is filled with remorse and grief and refuses to take it.
(b) She cries out in jubilation and dances to celebrate her great honor.
(c) She takes the bone and grinds it into fine dust and then spreads it atop the river.
(d) She promises that she will send it to Yae's wife as an expression of her sympathy.

5. What is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?
(a) For the rains to come and water his crops.
(b) For the village to nominate him chief.
(c) For God to send him inspiration so that he can name his child.
(d) For the tide to turn so that he can journey more easily.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Yae arrives at the Haenam village at the beginning of Chapter 2, why is he so confident?

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

3. What do Sawi use to build the floors of their homes?

4. What time of day does the Richardson family arrive at their new home?

5. What do the Tumdu women use as flour in their cooking?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Yae throw water from the river into the air in order to drink it?

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

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

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

5. The Sawi people have a saying "the spirits have accepted our skin-grease in their rivers." What does this mean?

6. What do the elders Kigo, Hato and Numu do with the gifts they receive from the Tuans who are on the boat?

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

8. What was the moment in which Yae realizes that he has been tricked?

9. Why do the Sawi people see Kani and Mahean as the epitome of manhood?

10. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

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