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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 Peace Maker tell the author that The Real People have a diffulculty understanding and say that the practice of it is full of rivalry, violence, and control?

2. With whom does the author break off a relationship upon returning?

3. What spiritual man do the tribes people discuss, whose presence, name, and mission are known to the tribe?

4. What does the author realize about the universe after 3 days without food, water, or shelter

5. What gifts do Time Keeper and Memory Keeper share?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Ooota say is the way The Real People understand the word talent?

6. Why does the tribe sit in a circle after an evening meal?

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

8. What happens to the author by the third day of the walk in which she leads?

9. What is the significance of the green leaf?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

Define the literary genre: Memoir. Discuss the 3 major ways in which Memoir differs from fiction and non-fiction. Next, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Memoir. Is this current trend something that is attracting bloggers, diary writers, and other such writers to the field? When is a Memoir considered a literary work of art?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the significance and the metaphor of "the sacred cave". How is this cave representative of relationships? How is representative of the spiritual life? Use text from the book in your response.

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