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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 does seven-month-old Stephen think of his first journey down the Kronkel river?

2. What are the two new tools Richardson gives the men of Tumdu?

3. How many piers are driven into the jungle floor to build Richardson's house?

4. What do the Tuans give the elders who come out to meet them for the first time?

5. Who is building Richardson's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. For his journey to Haenam, Yae dresses in a very careful way. What are some of the underlying meanings which his clothing convey?

7. What kinds of weapons does Yae take on the trip?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Don Richardson's goal in coming to live with the Sawi people? He states that he is not interested in simply signing up converts or even in teaching the next generation Christian principals and behavior. What does he want? And why?

Essay Topic 2

There are moments when Don Richardson is transformed and sees the Sawi people not as "other" but as individual human beings much like himself. Choose a few of those moments and write about the process of his own personal shift of perception in terms of understanding the Sawi people in a new way. What does he come to respect and admire about them?

Essay Topic 3

The Sawi language is multi-layered, very complex, poetic, and sophisticated. Why would such a language arise from a culture that has no written language? Or is the fact that the Sawi do not have a written language part of the reason that the verbal language has become so sophisticated? Is their remoteness an asset in terms of language development? Has it given them time to develop a more pure and complicated way to communicate? Or is it the fact that they are such an ancient culture? Richardson struggles with understanding how such a language could come from the Sawi people. What are his thoughts and observations about the Sawi language?

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