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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 is the author's new career?
(a) a speaker on the teachings of the Aborigines.
(b) a speaker on the politics the Aborigines.
(c) a speaker on the rigors and hardships of the Outback.
(d) a speaker on herbs and healing chants.

2. What is the definition of "dream" to the Aborigines?
(a) a resistance to the Oneness.
(b) a reflection of anxiety.
(c) a culmination of stresses.
(d) a spiritual manifestation.

3. Who is the focus of the final ceremony?
(a) the author.
(b) Spirit Woman.
(c) Great Stone Hunter.
(d) Tribal Elder.

4. How do The Real People sit after an evening meal?
(a) spread out.
(b) under the trees.
(c) on rocks.
(d) in a circle.

5. What does the cave represent?
(a) the interconnection of all people, actions, and events.
(b) the inescapable presence of the Oneness.
(c) the solidarity of each life.
(d) the power of the underworld.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who sits across from the author that she ends up writing about?

2. What does Spirit Woman instruct the author to do that would help her dream?

3. Who does the tribe agree is their camel prey, according to their telepathy skills?

4. What does the author reveal she has lost track of?

5. What are totems reminders of?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What gifts do Time Keeper and Memory Keeper hold?

3. What do The Real People draw in the sand as the author's totem, yet they have not seen it?

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

5. How does the tribe treat the elderly female camel after she is killed?

6. Describe the walk that the author is told to take the lead?

7. How does the author get released back into society?

8. What does Kindred to Large Animals make an offer for and what happens as a result?

9. What is the significance of the green leaf?

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

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