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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 do the members of the tribe hold a concert?

2. Which member of the tribe makes the offer for his talent to connect with large beasts be used?

3. What has happened to most of the sacred sites of the Aborigine people?

4. What kind of music is performed?

5. Who does the author learn are getting ready to allow their souls to join the Great Oneness?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Aboriginal teachings help the author adjust back into civilization?

2. What does the author lose track of and one day wakes up thinking about?

3. What do the animals represent, according to The Real People?

4. How does the tribe define the term "talent"?

5. What does Story Teller reveal to the author?

6. What do The Real People draw in the sand as the author's totem, yet they have not seen it?

7. What does the author's dream signify, according to Spirit Woman?

8. What does Kindred to Large Animals make an offer for and what happens as a result?

9. How does the tribe treat the elderly female camel after she is killed?

10. What does the killing of the snakes for food represent to the tribe?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the book it is stated that the core experience of all Mutants is that they live and work from a place of fear instead of love and awareness and abundance. Trace the dismantling of the author's fear through her journey. How does the author move from a place of fear into love. Describe the steps of her journey and support your findings with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 2

What is the overarching theme of MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER? What "message" do the Aboriginal People want the Western World to know and in what ways do they wish Westerners to change for the better? Provide textual evidence, and/or dialogue, to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Westerners continue to treat animals with antibiotics and steroids in order to speed their growth process for slaughter. In Aboriginal culture, the animals provide themselves as food to the people. This is a stark contrast. In what was has the Western world forgotten it's Aboriginal nature and relationship to the earth in terms of food and nutrition? In what ways are modern agricultural practices completely disrespectful for animals and, as a direct result, the health of humans? Compare your findings with the Aboriginal respect for animals and agriculture.

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