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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 two villages are fighting on the Tuan's doorstep?

2. Why is it so difficult for the Sawi people to convert to Richardson's faith?

3. How do the Sawi prepare a body for burial?

4. What do the Sawi people raise their children to be?

5. What do Sawi people do if twins are born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Richardson see in the ritual of the Sawi peace child which gives him hope about sharing his Christian message with the villagers?

2. When the Richardsons inform the Sawi leaders that they will be moving, what surprising response do they receive?

3. When Don Richardson shares the story of Jesus with the Sawi men, what is their reaction?

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

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

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

7. What surprises Richardson about the Sawi language?

8. Why does Carol's warm wash water have black specks in it?

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

10. What does Mahaen think the underlying reason for "gefam asan" is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Peace Child is what Richardson calls a "redemptive analogy." What does he mean by this? What is the redemptive story that Richardson is trying to teach them and why does the Sawi ritual of the Peace Child provide a connection? What does the peace child represent for the Sawi people? For Richardson?

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