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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the author arrive at the beginning of Chapter 1?
(a) the Outback.
(b) the Sydney airport.
(c) a friend's house in Australia.
(d) a hotel in Australia.

2. What do the tribe members reveal about their names?
(a) they are ignored and seen as trite and insignificant.
(b) they are an indication of the individuals talent.
(c) they were given upon birth.
(d) they are given by the gods.

3. What is symbolic of Western culture's emphasis on the unnecessary over the basic?
(a) spouses and children.
(b) cars and houses.
(c) clothes and jewelry.
(d) gravy and icing.

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

5. What does everyone else do when Tribal Elder falls silent?
(a) everyone begins to talk.
(b) everyone stands.
(c) everyone begins to worry.
(d) everyone follows suit.

6. What do the author and the tribesmen use as a means for fairly successful communication?
(a) writing.
(b) sign language.
(c) tribal vocabulary.
(d) dance.

7. How does a human being give honor to their universally connected being?
(a) by giving.
(b) by creating.
(c) by taking.
(d) by loving.

8. What is the "talent-name" the author gives herself?
(a) Fly Accepter.
(b) Bee Charmer.
(c) Dung Collector.
(d) Icing Dream.

9. 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 provide medical care to the Aborigines.
(d) her efforts to eradicate illiteracy .

10. What is the name of the native Australian people?
(a) Indian.
(b) The Tribesman.
(c) Native Australian.
(d) Aborigine.

11. What does the author's unusual scent, and subsequent burial in the sand, an indicator of?
(a) long-held emotions.
(b) long-held beliefs.
(c) long-held injuries.
(d) long-held toxins.

12. What does the disclaimer suggest is the genre of the book?
(a) a work of fiction.
(b) memoir.
(c) anthology.
(d) non-fiction.

13. What is the name of the main character?
(a) Margaret Lewis.
(b) Marlo Morgan.
(c) Marla Morgan.
(d) Morgan Smith.

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

15. What is the name of the author's guide?
(a) Ooota.
(b) Taoa.
(c) Otaoo.
(d) Otaa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sort of creatures surround the author and cleanse her body of dead skin, her nose of obstructions, and her ears of wax?

3. What kind of attention does the author's work receive?

4. What does the author hope will someday happen between Native people and western culture?

5. What does the tribe engage in during the process of returning Great Stone Hunter to his original healthy state?

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