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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 does Don Richardson say to the battling warriors?

2. What life forms must the Richardson family learn to live with inside their new home?

3. What does Don Richardson believe the real battle is about?

4. What is "aumamay"?

5. What is the first thing Warahi says when he comes out of his coma?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 24, what does Richardson organize and describe that would have been impossible when he first arrived?

2. What is the custom of fighting as described in Chapter 13, War at my Door?

3. What happens when the Richardson family and their Sawi friends capsized in the dugout?

4. Who is Biakadon?

5. What are the four levels of despair in the Sawi ritual of "gefam asan"?

6. What is the Sawidome?

7. What have the Sawi built in the time after modern life and Christianity have come to them?

8. Why is the arrival of Hurip, the injured Kayagar, such a challenge?

9. A Sawi woman dies in childbirth along with the twins that she gives birth to. What do the Sawi believe about twins?

10. What surprises Richardson about the Sawi language?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Peace Child is a before-and-after book. There is a particular culture in place before Richardson arrived and brought new ideas and there is a particular culture that emerges out of the interchange between the author and the Sawi people. What is the world of the Sawi people like before Richardson arrives? What are the benefits of the Sawi culture before the influence of Richardson and the modern world? What are the challenges?

Essay Topic 2

Much of a Sawi person's day is spent gathering or hunting food. Families are mutually dependent upon each other for daily survival. What impact does this type of lifestyle have upon the Sawi family structure? What shape does a typical Sawi family take and is it a stable unit? What examples do you find in the book to support your conclusion?

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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