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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. Which tribe member announces and then releases the author on her mission to the world?
(a) Female Healer.
(b) Regal Black Swan.
(c) Spirit Woman.
(d) Kindred to Large Animals.

2. How much of the bird is used by The Real People?
(a) its wings.
(b) the meat.
(c) all of it.
(d) the feathers.

3. 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?
(a) Kindred to Large Animals and Ooota.
(b) Great Stone Hunter and Spirit Woman.
(c) Female Healer and Medicine Man.
(d) Ooota and Peace Maker.

4. What word is ref-defined for the author?
(a) dance.
(b) grace.
(c) religion.
(d) music.

5. How do some of the tribal people feel about sitting across from the "mutant"?
(a) angry.
(b) reluctant.
(c) resentful.
(d) happy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are totems reminders of?

2. What idea is exchanged between the author and the Aborigine after dinner while sitting in the circle?

3. What does the author hallucinate about on the third day without water, food, or shelter?

4. What do the tribes people hold up and announce they have found the perfect container for the mutant who is addicted to water?

5. What talent does Spirit Woman reveal to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How do The Real People celebrate birthdays?

8. What does the author's dream signify, according to Spirit Woman?

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

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

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