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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 Don Richardson feeling as he steps onto the bank of the Kronkel and meets those who are waiting for them?

2. When Don Richardson first goes to work with the Sawi people, what foreign nation had claimed that area as its own?

3. Are the Sawi women involved in head hunting?

4. Who is building Richardson's house?

5. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was the moment in which Yae realizes that he has been tricked?

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

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

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

7. What is Yae trying to do as he makes a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?

8. Why do the Sawi people hide in the thorn bushes when the plane comes?

9. Why does Yae throw water from the river into the air in order to drink it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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