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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. How many wives does Yae's cousin Wasi have?

2. Who is waiting at the new homesite when the Richardsons arrive?

3. How many wives does the patriarch of Tumdu have?

4. What is the word that Sawi greet one another with?

5. What does the Sawi expression "hahap kaman" mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. The Sawi people have a saying "the spirits have accepted our skin-grease in their rivers." What does this mean?

2. What are some of the fears which the Sawi people have about the Tuans?

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

4. How does Kauwan display "saravon," a customary display of force, and why does he do this when Yae arrives at the village of Haenam?

5. What do the elders Kigo, Hato and Numu do with the gifts they receive from the Tuans who are on the boat?

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

7. How is the boar killed?

8. What is Yae trying to do as he makes a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?

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

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

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

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?

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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