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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 a good strategy for a Sawi village that wants to take revenge against another village?

2. How is wild boar meat carried out of the jungle?

3. Yae's young brother Sao is ill. What is his sickness?

4. Which of these terms can be used to describe the tribe?

5. What is the name of the tribe that Don Richardson and his wife Carol live with?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the chapter title mean?

3. What response does Richardson offer to those who would advocate that these remote tribes need to be left alone and not contacted?

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

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

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

7. Does Ebenezer Vine promise the students fame and fortune?

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

9. What do the Richardsons find surprising and difficult about the Sawi people?

10. Why is the sound of the diesel boat engines so frightening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Richardson believes that change is inevitable for the Sawi people. How do the changes which he encouraged prepare them for the modern world that would soon descend upon them? Is there a choice for the Sawi people? Would the old ways have vanished no matter what? If a culture loses its world view and religion, does it lose its essence? Or can it retain its identity and absorb a new world view? Can the Sawi be Sawi without their religion, cannibalistic practices and headhunting?

Essay Topic 2

The author believes that remote tribes such as the Sawi should be contacted. Why does he believe this? Is it simply for reasons of conversion? What does the author believe is inevitable for these remote people? Why does he feel justified in the being "first contact" for these ancient cultures?

Essay Topic 3

Richardson has a theory that the distance between the Sawi culture and his own can be bridged if he can find an analogy between the two. What is a cultural analogy? What is the bridge that Richardson finds? How does he recognize it?

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