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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main issue that is explored in the book?
(a) humanity.
(b) physicality.
(c) spirituality.
(d) nature.

2. What does the driver tell the author to remove from her body?
(a) her clothes and jewelry.
(b) her clothes.
(c) her jewelry.
(d) her shoes.

3. What does the author offer in gratitude for on a daily basis that affects her physical well being?
(a) health and healing hands.
(b) herbs and dried fruit for her pains.
(c) plants and animals that offer sustenance.
(d) water and clothes for her body.

4. What is the book primarily inspired after?
(a) interviews.
(b) research.
(c) actual experience.
(d) a spiritual desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the members of the tribe working together to create?

3. What is The Real People's belief that illness and/or injury is an opportunity for?

4. What does the author hope will someday happen between Native people and western culture?

5. Where does the setting of the book take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author instructed to do after the driver and author arrive at the settlement?

2. What does the author think about during the ride to the luncheon meeting?

3. Why does the tribe believe is the reason why Great Stone Hunter was injured?

4. Why does the tribe separate into two groups?

5. What do the tribe members reveal about their names?

6. What does Regal Black Swan tell the author about the flies and why they are here to help and how she cannot survive without them?

7. What does the author suggest about indigenous people?

8. What are gravy and icing a symbol of?

9. Explain what Ooota means when he says that mental telepathy is the preferred means of communication for The Real People (Aborigines)?

10. What is Tribal Elder being told by the young man as he sits on the ground and falls silent?

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