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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 time of day does the Richardson family arrive at their new home?

2. How do Don and Carol Richardson travel to New Guinea in 1962?

3. Why must the women, young men and children leave when Yae's skull is cracked open?

4. Why is Yae going on a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?

5. What do the Sawi people do when the long poles holding up their homes begin to rot?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is the boar killed?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the time Richardson and his wife live with the Sawi people, change comes to both missionary and village people. Describe the change that the final chapter lays out in terms of the Sawi people. How have they been changed? What basic behaviors have been altered? How is Don Richardson different from the young man who set out from Canada on this journey?

Essay Topic 3

The world of the Sawi people is very complex and based upon survival needs and a strong structure of family and tribal identity. Write an essay describing some aspect of the complexity that underlies what might seem like a simple hunter/gatherer society. For instance, Richardson finds that the language itself is very sophisticated and nuanced. The system of protection that family ties offer, for instance mother-in-law bonds, is both unique and imaginative. There is symbolism in the clothing, jewelry, and other items that the tribespeople own. Chose some aspect of the Sawi culture and show how there is an underlying sophistication to what might seem "primitive."

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