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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What practice does the tribe never participate in?
(a) counting the days on a calendar.
(b) keeping track of the hours.
(c) birth control.
(d) arranged marriage.

2. Where is the author taken to watch the natives perform?
(a) a shed.
(b) the Outback.
(c) a private home.
(d) a grove of trees.

3. What does the author most hope to convey through writing the book?
(a) a core spiritual truth.
(b) the history of the Aborigine people.
(c) a new religion.
(d) a new way of life.

4. What does the author marvel at as she releases the pain of walking and walks into the Outback?
(a) Ooota and his people.
(b) the sky and the plains.
(c) the circling falcon and sips of water.
(d) the rise of the land in front of her.

5. What is the special herbal tea drunk in celebration of?
(a) the ending of a meal.
(b) the fullness of the moon.
(c) the alignment of the stars.
(d) the authors acceptance into the tribe.

6. What do the tribesman cook that the author thinks she cannot eat?
(a) a white worm.
(b) a kangaroo.
(c) spiders.
(d) a snake.

7. What is the name of the main character?
(a) Morgan Smith.
(b) Marla Morgan.
(c) Marlo Morgan.
(d) Margaret Lewis.

8. What is the only indication of injury that the Great Stone Hunter bears the morning after?
(a) nausea.
(b) a fine, dark scar.
(c) he is depressed.
(d) panic and anxiety.

9. Why is the author invited to move to Australia?
(a) to work with the healthcare system.
(b) to reform the Aborigines.
(c) to work with employing sustainable agriculture.
(d) to work with children.

10. What does Ooota tell her about all other types of communications?
(a) they lead to results.
(b) they are more efficient.
(c) they are lies.
(d) they are faster.

11. What has happened to the young man that has delayed his journey?
(a) he has encountered danger.
(b) he has lost his way.
(c) he has suffered injury.
(d) he has fallen ill.

12. What sort of creatures surround the author and cleanse her body of dead skin, her nose of obstructions, and her ears of wax?
(a) locusts.
(b) flies.
(c) wasps.
(d) hornets.

13. What does the driver give the author shortly after their introduction?
(a) a scanty piece of clothing.
(b) a long robe.
(c) a piece of bread.
(d) a piece of jewelry.

14. How does a human being give honor to their universally connected being?
(a) by giving.
(b) by taking.
(c) by creating.
(d) by loving.

15. What is the author learning to do in ways she had never learned before?
(a) to love and care for herself.
(b) to forgive herself.
(c) to love and care for others.
(d) to feed herself physically and spiritually.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is a "walkabout"

2. What was the author told about how the Aborigines in Australia are regarded?

3. According to the tribe, what parts of the human being are universally connected?

4. What does the man who reads the author's palm say about about the birth of the person she will meet'?

5. What is symbolic of Western culture's emphasis on the unnecessary over the basic?

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