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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens after the young man arrives ?

2. What does the author learn about the communication between all living things?

3. What literary category does the book fall into?

4. What do the author and the tribesmen use as a means for fairly successful communication?

5. What does the main character do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is the author taken and what happens once she gets there?

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

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

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

5. Why is the author invited to move to Australia to work?

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

7. What do the members of the tribe seem to be working together to create and how does the author respond?

8. What happens to the author's feet as a result of the initial walkabout?

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

10. What is the brief disclaimer given by the author?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the setting of MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER? How does the setting ultimately feed into the theme of the book? Provide 4 details of the setting that are crucial for the lessons learned from the book. Finally, if the setting were changed, how would it affect the books spiritual nature?

Essay Topic 2

In the book it is stated that the core experience of all Mutants is that they live and work from a place of fear instead of love and awareness and abundance. Trace the dismantling of the author's fear through her journey. How does the author move from a place of fear into love. Describe the steps of her journey and support your findings with textual evidence.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the healing of Great Stone Hunter and how the bone in his leg slid back into place after chanting and hymns. What other religions and cultures advocate this type of healing? (i.e. Christian Science, Native Americans, etc). How would Western Medicine respond to this type of healing? Is it a sham? Is it considered a dangerous way of thinking and naive hope? Are there any valid points to this type of healing? Tie in as many examples as possible and compare them with dialogue from the book.

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