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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 object stays tantalizingly out of walking distance?
(a) a small town.
(b) a gray rain cloud.
(c) a herd of horses.
(d) an oasis.

2. What does the author hear as she prays to the Oneness for help in finding water?
(a) Be Mindful.
(b) Be Grateful.
(c) Be Water.
(d) Be Eyes.

3. What do Time Keeper and Memory Keeper perform on the author?
(a) a ritual of purification and invocation.
(b) a ritual of forgiveness.
(c) a ritual of faith and compassion.
(d) a fertility ritual.

4. What member of the tribe sits across from the author after the ceremony?
(a) Female Healer.
(b) Tribal Elder.
(c) Ooota.
(d) Great Stone Hunter.

5. What lesson does the soaring falcon teach?
(a) to study life.
(b) to contemplate more.
(c) to glide through life.
(d) to look at the bigger picture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson does the kangaroo teach?

2. How do some of the tribal people feel about sitting across from the "mutant"?

3. Which tribe member tells the author that she has been chosen to come on this journey in order to fulfill an agreement made between her and another soul before their births?

4. Which memebers of the tribe does the author stay up and talk with after being too intrigued about the message she must take back to the Mutant World?

5. What is the core experience of all Mutants?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Story Teller reveal to the author?

2. How does the tribe define the term "talent"?

3. Describe the core experience of all Mutants as opposed to The Real People?

4. What happens to the birds that are killed by the boomerangs?

5. What does the killing of the snakes for food represent to the tribe?

6. What does Ooota say is the way The Real People understand the word talent?

7. How do The Real People celebrate birthdays?

8. How does the author go about realizing the "grace" of the universe?

9. What happens when the author prays to the Oneness for water?

10. Describe the person that the author shares her destiny, as foretold by the man in the coffee shop and Secret Keeper.

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