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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is a "walkabout"
(a) a six month trek.
(b) a one month trek.
(c) a year long trek.
(d) a three month trek.

2. What does the author refer to when she speaks of the one experience in Australia that has made her unhappy?
(a) the state of the Aborigines.
(b) the state of the education system.
(c) the quality of the air.
(d) the abandonment of natural resources.

3. How much of the bird is used by The Real People?
(a) the feathers.
(b) all of it.
(c) the meat.
(d) its wings.

4. What practice does the tribe never participate in?
(a) birth control.
(b) counting the days on a calendar.
(c) keeping track of the hours.
(d) arranged marriage.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the author learning to do in ways she had never learned before?

2. Why is the author invited to move to Australia?

3. What do the tribes people hold up and announce they have found the perfect container for the mutant who is addicted to water?

4. What are totems reminders of?

5. What do the tribesman cook that the author thinks she cannot eat?

(see the answer key)

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