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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 the second level of despair?

2. What do the women do during battle?

3. What fruits and flowers do the missionaries introduce to the Sawi?

4. What have the Sawi villagers constructed around the Richardson home?

5. What insult is hurtled at a Haenam youth which almost starts a serious battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Biakadon?

2. What is the Sawidome?

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

4. How do the Sawi people know that Warahai's soul has left his body?

5. What is "aumamay"?

6. What does Richardson promise to teach the Sawi Christians?

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

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

9. What do the Richardsons conclude about the ongoing violence which they face amid the combined Sawi village communities?

10. What ritual do the Sawi villagers engage in which inspires the title of this book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

It takes a great deal of intelligence to survive in the jungle without modern technology. Yet we often describe cultures like the Sawi tribe as "primitive." What is the difference between the kind of intelligence it takes for a Sawi family to survive in a stone age civilization and the kind of intelligence it takes to graduate from an American university? Are there different kinds of knowledge? Is a Sawi person more observant than the typical American student or less? How would a modern American student fare if set in the jungle with stone tools? How would a Sawi person do in high school or college? Write an essay contemplating Sawi intelligence.

Essay Topic 3

The interaction between the stone age and modern culture is a rare event. The drama of this story is the stunning clash of two worlds. What events in the book most dramatically reveal the strangeness between Tuan/Sawi? The plane? The boat? Selling of a child for an ax? The killing of Yao? The rituals? The cannibalism? Chose three of the most significant and dramatic events and describe them. What is it about these three events which clarify the deep differences between these two cultures?

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