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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 learn about the communication between all living things?
(a) there is mass communication available at all times.
(b) there is a spiritual center.
(c) no one is capable of mental telepathy.
(d) there is an inter-relationship.

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

3. What is The Real People's belief that illness and/or injury is an opportunity for?
(a) opportunity to discover what is wrong.
(b) opportunity to appreciate the gifts of existence.
(c) opportunity to release toxins.
(d) opportunity to learn more about medicine.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the native Australian people?

2. What does the author contemplate after she observs the healing of Great Stone Hunter?

3. What does everyone else do when Tribal Elder falls silent?

4. What does the man who reads the author's palm tell her about why she has come to Australia?

5. What has happened to the young man that has delayed his journey?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Desribe the journey Marlo is about to undertake?

3. What do The Real People believe that illness and/or injury is really an opportunity for?

4. 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?

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

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

7. Why does the tribe separate into two groups?

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

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

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

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