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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the main character do for a living?
(a) business woman.
(b) teacher.
(c) health care practitioner.
(d) graphic designer.

2. Where does the setting of the book take place?
(a) Australia.
(b) India.
(c) Africa.
(d) Asia.

3. What does each day begin with on the walkabout?
(a) a blessing .
(b) breakfast.
(c) a chanted prayer or hymn.
(d) cleaning of camp.

4. Who does the man who reads the author's palm say she will meet while she is in Australia?
(a) a person whose soul was tied to her own before birth.
(b) a man who will become a father figure.
(c) a child who will change her life.
(d) a woman who will show her how to love again.

5. What was the author told about how the Aborigines in Australia are regarded?
(a) they are needy, beggers, and thieves.
(b) they are dangerous, loud, violent.
(c) they are astute, responsible, and self-reliant.
(d) they are unintelligent, unreliable, and a dying race.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does a walkabout take place?

2. What does the author refer to when she speaks of the one experience in Australia that has made her unhappy?

3. What kind of narrative is the book?

4. What is the author invited to teach about the benefits and uses of?

5. What does the man who reads the author's palm tell her about why she has come to Australia?

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