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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 Bruce watch crawl across the ceiling when he lays in his hammock?

2. Who does Bruce see when he and others are searching for Bobby in Chapter 24?

3. Who is Bruce's doctor at the hospital in Tibu?

4. What does Bruce hear when he and others are on the trail to Norecayra?

5. What is the name of the man with the distinctive laugh who Bruce had met before?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens during the ceremony when Cobaydra becomes a man?

2. What rule does an elderly chief suggest be followed whenever the Bible was read?

3. Who is Odo and why does Bobby take care of him?

4. How does Bruce discover that the Motilone language is a tonal language?

5. How does Bruce get money to pay for drugs for a measles epidemic?

6. How does Bobby die?

7. How does Bruce persuade the Motilones to use disinfectants?

8. Describe Bobby's funeral.

9. Why is it strange that when the Motilones go to tell the Yukos about Jesus, the Yukos understand them?

10. Why do the Motilone not shoot any man or animal who is about to die a natural death?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the book, Bruce wonders if Christianity can be separate from culture. Using Bruce's arguments from the book, argue whether Bruce believes that people can become Christians without abandoning their culture.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, explain the analogy of the Motilone as a tree.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 10, Bruce quotes Psalm 23:5. Explain what that verse means to Bruce and whether he believes the verse literally or symbolically using examples from the book.

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