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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 do Sawi men smoke in their pipes?

2. How old is Don Richardson when he first felt a spiritual call to serve God as a missionary?

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

4. What does the expression "to fatten with friendship for the slaughter" mean?

5. What does the tribe think of treachery and violence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What about the jungle frightens Don Richardson?

2. Why do the Sawi people see Kani and Mahean as the epitome of manhood?

3. The Sawi people have a saying "the spirits have accepted our skin-grease in their rivers." What does this mean?

4. Why does Wario, Mahaen's mother-in-law, agree to be part of Kani's terrible revenge plot?

5. What does the village of Mauro look like?

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

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

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

9. Why does the ecstatic Sawi communal expression of "hahap kaman" so deeply affect Richardson?

10. Why do the Sawi people hide in the thorn bushes when the plane comes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Metaphor has often been used to explain life and death. How does the metaphor of Christian resurrection and Sawi "remon" parallel each other? What natural phenomenon do they both use to explain rebirth?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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