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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. How is wild boar meat carried out of the jungle?

2. Where is Yae sitting at the beginning of chapter one?

3. Who is Ebenezer G. Vine?

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

5. What do the Sawi assume when they hear that the Tuans are almost all men?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why do the Sawi people see Kani and Mahean as the epitome of manhood?

5. What do the Richardsons find surprising and difficult about the Sawi people?

6. What does the chapter title mean?

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

8. For his journey to Haenam, Yae dresses in a very careful way. What are some of the underlying meanings which his clothing convey?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author believes that remote tribes such as the Sawi should be contacted. Why does he believe this? Is it simply for reasons of conversion? What does the author believe is inevitable for these remote people? Why does he feel justified in the being "first contact" for these ancient cultures?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The Sawi language is multi-layered, very complex, poetic, and sophisticated. Why would such a language arise from a culture that has no written language? Or is the fact that the Sawi do not have a written language part of the reason that the verbal language has become so sophisticated? Is their remoteness an asset in terms of language development? Has it given them time to develop a more pure and complicated way to communicate? Or is it the fact that they are such an ancient culture? Richardson struggles with understanding how such a language could come from the Sawi people. What are his thoughts and observations about the Sawi language?

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