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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author marvel at as she releases the pain of walking and walks into the Outback?
(a) the sky and the plains.
(b) the circling falcon and sips of water.
(c) the rise of the land in front of her.
(d) Ooota and his people.

2. What does the author begin to understand she is respecting about the land and the people of Australia?
(a) sustaining health.
(b) sustaining the friendships she has made.
(c) sustaining the life force in all things.
(d) sustaining her own security .

3. Who do the Aborigines want to marry so that they can fully integrate into society?
(a) Native Americans.
(b) white people.
(c) Europeans.
(d) the Irish.

4. What two groups does the tribe separate into upon hearing the news of the young man?
(a) cooking and praying.
(b) healing and chanting.
(c) praying and healing.
(d) healing and cooking.

5. What does the author envision is happening as the creatures surround her?
(a) she's sick with pneumonia.
(b) she's at a beauty spa in New York.
(c) she's on vacation.
(d) she's on a spiritual path.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the author prayerfully thank at the end of the evening?

2. What does the author decide to do when Ooota takes the lead on the walkabout?

3. Why is the author invited to move to Australia?

4. What sort of creatures surround the author and cleanse her body of dead skin, her nose of obstructions, and her ears of wax?

5. What kind of performance does the author watch the natives perform?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Regal Black Swan tell the author about the flies and why they are here to help and how she cannot survive without them?

2. Explain what Ooota means when he says that mental telepathy is the preferred means of communication for The Real People (Aborigines)?

3. What kind of acceptance ritual occurs as they all prepare to sleep?

4. How is Great Stone Hunter healed?

5. What does the author suggest about indigenous people?

6. What does the tribe discuss after the injury/healing experience?

7. What is Tribal Elder being told by the young man as he sits on the ground and falls silent?

8. What are gravy and icing a symbol of?

9. Why does the tribe believe is the reason why Great Stone Hunter was injured?

10. Desribe the journey Marlo is about to undertake?

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