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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only safe way for a Sawi person to drink water from the river?

2. What part of the human skeleton do Sawi children play with?

3. What might a visitor in a Sawi village be offered as a snack?

4. What effect does the tide have upon the black, algae-stained Kronkel river?

5. What does Richardson build his home with?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Yae so confident and relaxed on this visit to the Haenam village?

2. What does the village of Mauro look like?

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

4. What is Ebenezer Vine trying to accomplish with his lecture tour?

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

6. Why is Narai waiting in the elephant grass, in his small dugout? What is his purpose and job to do on this auspicious day?

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

8. Why does Wario, Mahaen's mother-in-law, agree to be part of Kani's terrible revenge plot?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Human beings interpret stories based on experience. The Sawi people interpret the story of Jesus based upon their own world view and practical human experience. How does their interpretation of Judas as the hero of the Jesus story come out of their cultural experience? What parallel are they using to understand the story? What experience in their own lives leads them to see Judas as the hero?

Essay Topic 2

Peace Child is a before-and-after book. There is a particular culture in place before Richardson arrived and brought new ideas and there is a particular culture that emerges out of the interchange between the author and the Sawi people. What is the world of the Sawi people like before Richardson arrives? What are the benefits of the Sawi culture before the influence of Richardson and the modern world? What are the challenges?

Essay Topic 3

It takes a great deal of intelligence to survive in the jungle without modern technology. Yet we often describe cultures like the Sawi tribe as "primitive." What is the difference between the kind of intelligence it takes for a Sawi family to survive in a stone age civilization and the kind of intelligence it takes to graduate from an American university? Are there different kinds of knowledge? Is a Sawi person more observant than the typical American student or less? How would a modern American student fare if set in the jungle with stone tools? How would a Sawi person do in high school or college? Write an essay contemplating Sawi intelligence.

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