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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Time Keeper and Memory Keeper perform on the author?
(a) a ritual of purification and invocation.
(b) a ritual of faith and compassion.
(c) a ritual of forgiveness.
(d) a fertility ritual.

2. What does the authors dream mean, according to Spirit Woman?
(a) her life will undergo signifcant change.
(b) her life is static and unmoving.
(c) her life is a blessing and a curse.
(d) her life is fragile.

3. What is the definition of "dream" to the Aborigines?
(a) a culmination of stresses.
(b) a spiritual manifestation.
(c) a resistance to the Oneness.
(d) a reflection of anxiety.

4. What does the author hallucinate about on the third day without water, food, or shelter?
(a) her health deteriorating.
(b) the tribal members unkindness.
(c) her friends back home.
(d) her childhood and family.

5. What word is ref-defined for the author?
(a) music.
(b) dance.
(c) religion.
(d) grace.

6. How is the flock of large and brightly colored birds killed?
(a) boomerang.
(b) shot gun.
(c) net.
(d) storm.

7. What is the core experience of all Mutants?
(a) hate.
(b) fear.
(c) peace.
(d) love.

8. What does the eat for a meal after finding the pool of water?
(a) a wandering reptile.
(b) a bird.
(c) a collection of insects.
(d) dried camel meat.

9. What does the author see in the distance that is completely out of place in the flatness of the desert?
(a) a grassy patch.
(b) a hill.
(c) a mountain.
(d) a mound.

10. What is the author's new career?
(a) a speaker on the rigors and hardships of the Outback.
(b) a speaker on herbs and healing chants.
(c) a speaker on the politics the Aborigines.
(d) a speaker on the teachings of the Aborigines.

11. Which memebers of the tribe does the author stay up and talk with after being too intrigued about the message she must take back to the Mutant World?
(a) Ooota and Peace Maker.
(b) Female Healer and Medicine Man.
(c) Great Stone Hunter and Spirit Woman.
(d) Kindred to Large Animals and Ooota.

12. What has left behind a pool of water?
(a) a storm.
(b) a river.
(c) a rain cloud.
(d) an oasis.

13. What idea is exchanged between the author and the Aborigine after dinner while sitting in the circle?
(a) education.
(b) medicine.
(c) law.
(d) business.

14. What does the author reveal she has lost track of?
(a) her thoughts.
(b) time.
(c) distance.
(d) weather.

15. Where does each person place the leaf with the aim to re-create the leaf?
(a) into the ground.
(b) balanced on their head.
(c) in their palm.
(d) on their abdomen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an immediate event in which the Aboriginal teachings helped the author?

2. What force of nature envelopes the tribe, separates them, injures some, and washes away many of their belongings?

3. What do The Real People celebrate instead of birthdays?

4. Who suddenly begins leading the walk for two straight days?

5. During the tribal ceremony what is the author asked to embody the spirit and way of?

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