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

2. How do some of the tribal people feel about sitting across from the "mutant"?

3. What spiritual man do the tribes people discuss, whose presence, name, and mission are known to the tribe?

4. Who does the author learn are getting ready to allow their souls to join the Great Oneness?

5. What object stays tantalizingly out of walking distance?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the significance of the green leaf?

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

6. What does the author lose track of and one day wakes up thinking about?

7. How do the Aboriginal teachings help the author adjust back into civilization?

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

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

10. How does the author go about realizing the "grace" of the universe?

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

Discuss the metaphorical significance of the burning of the authors clothes and jewelry. Tie in this ritual with Native rituals from around the world. What does the fire symbolize, the clothing symbolize, the jewelry symbolize? Lastly, how and why is the ritual called "purification". What needs to be cleansed in the author, according to the Aboriginal culture?

Essay Topic 3

What is the role of animals in MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER? Describe how animals have messages of their own to share with the Aboriginal people and the Mutants. In what ways do the animals help to dismantle the fear in the author? Discuss the slayed camel, the snakes, and other animals relative to the story.

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