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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 refer to when she speaks of the one experience in Australia that has made her unhappy?
(a) the quality of the air.
(b) the abandonment of natural resources.
(c) the state of the education system.
(d) the state of the Aborigines.

2. What does the tribe engage in during the process of returning Great Stone Hunter to his original healthy state?
(a) praising and worshipping.
(b) singing and chanting.
(c) praying and weeping.
(d) singing and weeping.

3. What is the author told she needs to select from the pile?
(a) a brick.
(b) a rock.
(c) a piece of wood.
(d) a leaf.

4. What is the author invited to teach about the benefits and uses of?
(a) an improved education system.
(b) an innovative agricultural invention.
(c) a strategic defense system.
(d) an innovative medical diagnostic tool.

5. Where is the author taken to watch the natives perform?
(a) the Outback.
(b) a grove of trees.
(c) a shed.
(d) a private home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the author invited to move to Australia?

2. What name does the tribe give the author?

3. What is the tar-like substance that Female Healer applies to Great Sone Hunter's injuries made of?

4. What is symbolic of Western culture's emphasis on the unnecessary over the basic?

5. What object does Tool Maker reconstruct while Ooota points out that the tribe does not make judgement of other peoples belief?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Describe the main character in "A Woman's Journey Into Dreamtime Australia"?

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

5. Explain what Ooota means when he says that mental telepathy is the preferred means of communication for The Real People (Aborigines)?

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

7. What are gravy and icing a symbol of?

8. How is Great Stone Hunter healed?

9. What does the young man who reads her palm tell the author about why she has come to Australia?

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

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