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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 do Time Keeper and Memory Keeper perform on the author?
(a) a fertility ritual.
(b) a ritual of forgiveness.
(c) a ritual of purification and invocation.
(d) a ritual of faith and compassion.

2. What is an immediate event in which the Aboriginal teachings helped the author?
(a) her father's peaceful death.
(b) losing Geoff.
(c) reconciling with her daughter.
(d) her mother's passing.

3. What idea is exchanged between the author and the Aborigine after dinner while sitting in the circle?
(a) business.
(b) medicine.
(c) law.
(d) education.

4. How much of the bird is used by The Real People?
(a) its wings.
(b) the feathers.
(c) the meat.
(d) all of it.

5. Who is the focus of the final ceremony?
(a) Spirit Woman.
(b) Great Stone Hunter.
(c) the author.
(d) Tribal Elder.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has left behind a pool of water?

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

3. Which tribe member announces and then releases the author on her mission to the world?

4. What does the author reveal she has lost track of?

5. What does the tribe use for instruments?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the killing of the snakes for food represent to the tribe?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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