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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 the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?

2. What is the primary redemptive analogy which Richardson uses to reach the tribal people?

3. What is Carol Richardson feeling as she steps onto the bank of her new home?

4. What do Sawi use to build the floors of their homes?

5. How many pounds does the average wild boar weigh?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does the chapter title mean?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Every culture has rituals for the process of death, dying and grief. What specifically are the Sawi rituals for each of these stages? What beliefs are these rituals based on?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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