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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 is Yae waiting for before he goes to the village of Haenam?

2. Why does a Sawi wife shave her head?

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

4. What do the Tumdu women use as flour in their cooking?

5. Who is Patches?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Ebenezer Vine trying to accomplish with his lecture tour?

3. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in modern life?

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

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

6. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

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

8. What kinds of weapons does Yae take on the trip?

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 does the village of Mauro look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Metaphor has often been used to explain life and death. How does the metaphor of Christian resurrection and Sawi "remon" parallel each other? What natural phenomenon do they both use to explain rebirth?

Essay Topic 2

Why have the Sawi people been so protected from the modern world and its technological advances? Write an essay which explores both the physical reasons (geography), lifestyle, and world view of the Sawi culture which has kept it at such a remote distance.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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