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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author sleep on after they all share a special herb tea?
(a) a bundle of hides.
(b) a few heaps of sand.
(c) a child's sleeping bag.
(d) a pile of sticks.

2. What are the members of the tribe working together to create?
(a) shelter.
(b) a garden.
(c) a boat.
(d) a meal.

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

4. What does the author envision is happening as the creatures surround her?
(a) she's at a beauty spa in New York.
(b) she's on vacation.
(c) she's sick with pneumonia.
(d) she's on a spiritual path.

5. Who is the author met by when she arrives?
(a) the driver.
(b) a hotel concierge.
(c) a tour guide.
(d) an Aborigine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who do the Aborigines want to marry so that they can fully integrate into society?

3. How long was the drive across the desert?

4. What is the only indication of injury that the Great Stone Hunter bears the morning after?

5. What is The Real People's belief that illness and/or injury is an opportunity for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are gravy and icing a symbol of?

2. What is the thematic pattern that is apparent in this quest narrative?

3. What is the one experience in Australia that has made the author unhappy?

4. What does the author suggest about indigenous people?

5. What happens to the author that spikes a feeling of horror in her?

6. What happens to the author's feet as a result of the initial walkabout?

7. Where is the author taken and what happens once she gets there?

8. What is Tribal Elder being told by the young man as he sits on the ground and falls silent?

9. Why does the author write that the flower the girl wore throughout the day "had meaning" and that her friend's diamonds "had value".

10. Why does the author give herself the talent-name of "Dung-Collector"?

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