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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 author teach the tribe after the celebration?

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

3. Where has the author heard the story that Story Teller has told her before?

4. What is the author allowed to leave on the time-keeping wall in the sacred cave?

5. What does the author hear as she prays to the Oneness for help in finding water?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the animals represent, according to The Real People?

2. How does the author get released back into society?

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

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

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

6. What is the significance of the green leaf?

7. What does Story Teller reveal to the author?

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

9. Where is the author led and why is it significant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

What is the overarching theme of MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER? What "message" do the Aboriginal People want the Western World to know and in what ways do they wish Westerners to change for the better? Provide textual evidence, and/or dialogue, to support your answer.

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