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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. Who is the patriarch of the Tumdu?

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

3. What year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?

4. What does Don Richardson do that frightens the Sawi people away from his house?

5. Why does Yae's wife, Kautap, throw his stone ax in the river when she hears that her husband has been murdered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the village of Mauro look like?

2. What are the Sawi concerned about when Richardson takes a bath in the Kronkel river?

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

4. What is Carol Richardson's reaction to the sight of 200 armed warriors and the women and children standing massed, awaiting their arrival?

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

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

7. How is the boar killed?

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

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

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

Peace Child is a before-and-after book. There is a particular culture in place before Richardson arrived and brought new ideas and there is a particular culture that emerges out of the interchange between the author and the Sawi people. What is the world of the Sawi people like before Richardson arrives? What are the benefits of the Sawi culture before the influence of Richardson and the modern world? What are the challenges?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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