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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the author and driver met by when they arrive at the small settlement?
(a) a middle-aged man.
(b) a tribal elder.
(c) two middle-aged women.
(d) a little girl and her brother.

2. What does the author learn about the communication between all living things?
(a) there is a spiritual center.
(b) no one is capable of mental telepathy.
(c) there is mass communication available at all times.
(d) there is an inter-relationship.

3. What two groups does the tribe separate into upon hearing the news of the young man?
(a) healing and cooking.
(b) healing and chanting.
(c) cooking and praying.
(d) praying and healing.

4. What is the author invited to teach about the benefits and uses of?
(a) an improved education system.
(b) a strategic defense system.
(c) an innovative medical diagnostic tool.
(d) an innovative agricultural invention.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of narrative is the book?

2. How does the state of the young Aboriginal people appear to the author?

3. Where is the author taken to watch the natives perform?

4. How long is a "walkabout"

5. Who does the man who reads the author's palm say she will meet while she is in Australia?

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