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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. Who are the author and driver met by when they arrive at the small settlement?
(a) a tribal elder.
(b) a middle-aged man.
(c) two middle-aged women.
(d) a little girl and her brother.

2. What kind of narrative is the book?
(a) a thematic narrative.
(b) a cultural narrative.
(c) a quest narrative.
(d) a perspective narrative.

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

4. What kind of attention does the author's work receive?
(a) positive.
(b) it is disregarded as racist.
(c) negative.
(d) it is ignored.

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. Why is the author invited to move to Australia?

2. What practice does the tribe never participate in?

3. What did the author design in order to help young Aborigines to take a position and use their skills?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author suggest about indigenous people?

2. What does Regal Black Swan tell the author about the flies and why they are here to help and how she cannot survive without them?

3. What is the brief disclaimer given by the author?

4. What do the Aborigines speak of doing as a desire to change the trajectory of their future?

5. Describe the beginning of each day as the author experiences several weeks of walking.

6. What do the tribe members reveal about their names?

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

8. What do the members of the tribe seem to be working together to create and how does the author respond?

9. Why does the tribe believe is the reason why Great Stone Hunter was injured?

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

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