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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. Why is Hadi so important to Don Richardson?

2. Who actually completes the murder of Yae?

3. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?

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

5. Why does Kauwan refuse to help Yae escape his terrible fate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does the village of Mauro look like?

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

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

10. How is the boar killed?

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

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.

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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