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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 year do the Richardsons go to New Guinea?

3. What is a good strategy for a Sawi village that wants to take revenge against another village?

4. What does the Richardson family sleep underneath?

5. What does Don Richardson interpret the tumult of Sawi activity as?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

5. Why does the ecstatic Sawi communal expression of "hahap kaman" so deeply affect Richardson?

6. How is the boar killed?

7. What is the key concept from Christianity that the missionary family uses to teach the Sawi people another way to live?

8. What do the young 7-month-old Stephen and the grown Sawi man Narai have in common?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Human beings interpret stories based on experience. The Sawi people interpret the story of Jesus based upon their own world view and practical human experience. How does their interpretation of Judas as the hero of the Jesus story come out of their cultural experience? What parallel are they using to understand the story? What experience in their own lives leads them to see Judas as the hero?

Essay Topic 2

Cross-cultural communication has always been part of human life. In recent times, however, with our ability to travel so easily and quickly, the mixing of cultures has become commonplace. Richardson was working with the Sawi people at a time when travel was becoming very accessible. What are the ethical issues of influencing another culture? Does Richardson have the right to intrude upon the Sawi people? Is it his responsibility to share valuable wisdom with people who have not been exposed to ideas which can bring peace and understanding in new ways?

Essay Topic 3

Richardson's agenda is to share the Christian gospel with the Sawi people which he believes will transform their violent culture into a more peaceful one. There are many obstacles, however. What obstacle does language present to him? Even more troubling for Richardson is the lack of cultural parallels between the Judeo-Christian world view and the Sawi world view. Write about the difference of introducing Christianity into a Jewish culture vs. introducing Christianity into the Sawi culture.

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