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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 many wives does the patriarch of Tumdu have?

2. What does "Kanggime" mean in the language Dani?

3. What does the white skin of the Tuans remind the Sawi people of?

4. Why do the Richardsons go to live in New Guinea?

5. What does Kauwan say that Yae should have given him in order to truly win his protection?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Yae so confident and relaxed on this visit to the Haenam village?

2. Who are the people that the author is going to work with?

3. What does Richardson believe is unavoidable in modern life?

4. What is the key concept from Christianity that the missionary family uses to teach the Sawi people another way to live?

5. What are some of the fears which the Sawi people have about the Tuans?

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

7. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

8. Why does Richardson title this chapter "Baptism of Strangeness"?

9. What is Yae trying to do as he makes a journey to the nearby village of Haenam?

10. What tools appears in Chapter 12, Patriarch of the Tumdu, which are new to Sawi culture?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The shift of government from the remote Dutch authorities to the more present Indonesian authorities brings tremendous change to the Sawi people. What does Richardson say about that change? How and why is that change so dramatic?

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

Richardson believes that change is inevitable for the Sawi people. How do the changes which he encouraged prepare them for the modern world that would soon descend upon them? Is there a choice for the Sawi people? Would the old ways have vanished no matter what? If a culture loses its world view and religion, does it lose its essence? Or can it retain its identity and absorb a new world view? Can the Sawi be Sawi without their religion, cannibalistic practices and headhunting?

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