Grammar (Tenses)

Celebrated with _________across the island, the Gawai Dayak festival in Borneo is a multi-day harvest festival held on May 31 to honor the island's indigenous people.

• enthusiast

• enthusiasm

• enthusiastic

• enthusianism

Gawai Dayak _________to "Dayak Day"; however, celebrations can last for a month!

• translated

• is translated

• translates

• has been translated

Weddings ________________ scheduled in June to take advantage of Gawai Dayak.

• deliberate

• deliberating

• are deliberately

• deliberated

The term Dayak is a grouping of indigenous people ____________the Iban, Bidayuh, Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit, Murut and over 200 other tribes which once roamed Borneo, sometimes relieving unsuspecting traders of their heads.

• includes

• is included

• was included

• including

_____________ in headhunting traditions of the past, the only head removed these days during Gawai Dayak belongs to a chicken sacrificed to honor a successful rice harvest.

• But

• Although

• Therefore

• Consequently

Iban and Dayak homes _____________during Gawai Dayak, allowing visitors a glimpse of daily life.

• are opened

• open

• are opening

• will be open

Tourists are invited to ______ colorful traditional costumes for photos, _________in traditional dances, and _________delicious cakes and treats.

• wearing, participating, sampling

• wears, participates, samples

• wear, participate, sample

• wore, participated, sampled

Many Dayak people ___________ from their rural homes into the cities in search of work.

• have moved

• move

• moves

• are moving

You ____________ far more baseball caps worn on heads than hornbill feathers these days.

• saw

• are seeing

• see

• will see

Christian Dayaks often attend mass at a church and then celebrate with dinner at a restaurant when ___________ Gawai Dayak in Borneo.

• observe

• observed

• observing

• is observing