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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10, 11 and 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What did the young girl of the tribe find and wear and then return to the earth?
(a) a leaf.
(b) a flower.
(c) an animal hide.
(d) a twig.

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

5. What is the author supposed to be honored for?
(a) her efforts to help disadvantaged Aborigines.
(b) her efforts to stop poverty.
(c) her efforts to eradicate illiteracy .
(d) her efforts to provide medical care to the Aborigines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What object does the author remember the woman back in America causes herself increasing stress over?

2. What does the author marvel at as she releases the pain of walking and walks into the Outback?

3. What kind of narrative is the book?

4. What does the young man drink that makes him sick?

5. What is the "talent-name" the author gives herself?

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