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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 Time Keeper and Memory Keeper perform on the author?

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

3. Where is the author led after the decision is made by the tribe?

4. What does the author express gratitude to for insight?

5. What game are the tribes people going to play with the large green leaves?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the walk that the author is told to take the lead?

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

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

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

5. What do the tribes know about Jesus?

6. What does the cave hold inside of it?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the use of the literary element of foreshadowing, most evident in the rock. Also discuss how the Aborigine named Tribal Elder proves to be an important link to the author's past and present. What does the author hope to gain by using this literary device? Use examples of the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the healing of Great Stone Hunter and how the bone in his leg slid back into place after chanting and hymns. What other religions and cultures advocate this type of healing? (i.e. Christian Science, Native Americans, etc). How would Western Medicine respond to this type of healing? Is it a sham? Is it considered a dangerous way of thinking and naive hope? Are there any valid points to this type of healing? Tie in as many examples as possible and compare them with dialogue from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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