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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 is the reason Female Healer and Medicine Man believe Great Stone Hunter got injured for?

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

3. What literary category does the book fall into?

4. Who is the author met by when she arrives?

5. What does the author understand the rituals to be considered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author suggest about indigenous people?

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

3. How does the author learn she has been accepted by the natives?

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

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

6. What do the tribe members reveal about their names?

7. What are gravy and icing a symbol of?

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

9. What is the thematic pattern that is apparent in this quest narrative?

10. Why does the author write that the flower the girl wore throughout the day "had meaning" and that her friend's diamonds "had value".

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The author is buried alive in one part of the book in order to remove the long-held toxins that are held in her body - and to protect the tribe from the preying dingos who smell her. How are these toxins built up in the author? Are her thoughts what is truly to account for her physicality, or is it simply from traveling through the Outback? Use the book and provide examples of the kind of toxic thoughts the author must release and compare them to Western society as a whole.

Essay Topic 2

What part of the book is the narrative's spiritual climax - or high point of the authors encounter with her spiritual self in relationship to the larger spiritual world? What are 3 aspects of the climax that stand out as having the most significance in evoking change within the author. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance and the metaphor of "the sacred cave". How is this cave representative of relationships? How is representative of the spiritual life? Use text from the book in your response.

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