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

2. What have the Aborigines killed and eaten but say they did so to not create waste?
(a) humans.
(b) rodents.
(c) elephants.
(d) kangaroos.

3. What object does the author remember the woman back in America causes herself increasing stress over?
(a) designer clothes.
(b) designer shoes.
(c) a diamond necklace.
(d) handbags.

4. What does the author have to forgive herself for?
(a) her anger.
(b) her elitism.
(c) her racism.
(d) her past.

5. Who works together to heal Great Stone Hunter's injuries?
(a) Ooota and Medicine Man.
(b) Medicine Man and Female Healer.
(c) Sewing Master and Medicine Man.
(d) Female Healer and Ooota.

Short Answer Questions

1. What literary category does the book fall into?

2. What is the book primarily inspired after?

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

4. What does the author say that nature has as opposed to what the diamonds had?

5. How does the state of the young Aboriginal people appear to the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Great Stone Hunter healed?

2. Why does the author end up buried in the sand?

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

4. What are gravy and icing a symbol of?

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

6. What does the author think about during the ride to the luncheon meeting?

7. What is the author instructed to do after the driver and author arrive at the settlement?

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

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

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