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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 event shatters the air of tension between the tribes on the first day of building?

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

3. What does Richardson build his home with?

4. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?

5. A typical stone axe would be swung 40 times to fell a tree. How many times does Hurip have to swing his steel axe to cut down the tree?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the boar killed?

2. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

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

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

5. What does the chapter title mean?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The shift of government from the remote Dutch authorities to the more present Indonesian authorities brings tremendous change to the Sawi people. What does Richardson say about that change? How and why is that change so dramatic?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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