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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the author invited to teach about the benefits and uses of?
(a) an innovative agricultural invention.
(b) a strategic defense system.
(c) an improved education system.
(d) an innovative medical diagnostic tool.

2. What does the author watch in horror as it burns?
(a) her shoes.
(b) her hair.
(c) her clothes and jewelry.
(d) her valuable ring.

3. What is the author supposed to be honored for?
(a) her efforts to stop poverty.
(b) her efforts to eradicate illiteracy .
(c) her efforts to help disadvantaged Aborigines.
(d) her efforts to provide medical care to the Aborigines.

4. What does the author most hope to convey through writing the book?
(a) the history of the Aborigine people.
(b) a new way of life.
(c) a core spiritual truth.
(d) a new religion.

5. What is the special herbal tea drunk in celebration of?
(a) the alignment of the stars.
(b) the authors acceptance into the tribe.
(c) the ending of a meal.
(d) the fullness of the moon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does each day begin with on the walkabout?

2. What does the author sleep on after they all share a special herb tea?

3. What does the author immediately suffer injuries to from thorny grass called spinifex?

4. What is the author learning to do in ways she had never learned before?

5. What literary category does the book fall into?

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