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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 does the cave represent?

2. What does the tribe use for instruments?

3. Which member of the tribe has a celebration involving a banquet and a storytelling in her honor?

4. What kind of music is performed?

5. What animal does the tribe draw in the sand and say is the author's totem?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Story Teller reveal to the author?

3. What does the cave hold inside of it?

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

5. What is the significance of the green leaf?

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

7. Describe the animal the author embodies during the tribal ceremony?

8. Why does the tribe sit in a circle after an evening meal?

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

10. What do the tribes know about Jesus?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

According to one of the main premises of the book is the idea that all people and all actions and events are ultimately connected. Discuss this idea of interconnectivity and "Oneness" within the book. What events prove that we are all connected? How do the tribal members exhibit this truth? Provide scenarios as evidence in your response.

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