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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. Where is Bobby's daughter taken when she becomes ill?

2. Who staffs the health centers, farms, and schools that are established in Motilone territory?

3. Who is the only Motilone with white hair?

4. In Chapter 19, how much money dioes Bruce need to pay for drugs for an epidemic that they are fighting?

5. What is Bobby's wife's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bruce begin teaching Motilones how to read?

2. What bothers Bruce about being with the Motilones?

3. How does Bruce get money to pay for drugs for a measles epidemic?

4. What do Bobby and Bruchko have to do when they are translating Philippians?

5. How does Bruce discover that the Motilone language is a tonal language?

6. Why do the Motilone not shoot any man or animal who is about to die a natural death?

7. What are two reasons that Bruce belived that the Motilones were the fastest example of development that had ever occurred in a primitive tribe?

8. After meeting with Gloria's mother in Chapter 24, why does Bruce not go back to Tibu.

9. How do the Motilone catch fish?

10. How does Bruce persuade the witch doctor to use medicine for the pinkeye epidemic?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why Bruce and the Motilone, after they become Christians, believe in miracles. Use examples from the book to support your explanations.

Essay Topic 2

Bruce had wanted to be a linguistics professor. Explain how Bruce's gift for languages and linguistics training helped in South America. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, explain why Bruce believes in providence, or that everything that happens to him, good or bad, is direct guidance from God. Use examples from the book.

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