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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Kurt take a strange pleasure in watching Robyn do?
(a) Get callusses.
(b) Eat.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Get bitten by the camels.

2. Who were Alcoota, Kate and Zeleika?
(a) Camels.
(b) Robyn's sisters.
(c) Robyn's best friends.
(d) Robyn's employers.

3. What was expected of Robyn in her first eight months working for Kurt?
(a) Clean house.
(b) To follow and pick up after the camels all day.
(c) To watch Kurt and learn.
(d) To spy on Kurt's camel saddle designs.

4. Whose needs did Kurt believe must come first?
(a) The camels'.
(b) Kurt's.
(c) Robyn's.
(d) Gladdy's.

5. Who gave Robyn emotional support at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Jen.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Iris.
(d) Gladdy.

6. By the beginning of Chapter 4, what did Robyn believe Kurt had the capacity to do?
(a) Commit murder.
(b) Train camels.
(c) Be generous.
(d) Perform magic.

7. 'A person preferring safety, comfort, illusion, to the hazards and adventures of revolution.' What is this phrase from Chapter 5 a definition of?
(a) Communism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) A classless society.

8. What did a visiting politico accuse Robyn of being?
(a) A communist.
(b) A bourgeois individualist.
(c) A conservative party member.
(d) Too liberal.

9. What did Robyn's pet crow, Akhnaton, do that became increasingly annoying to her?
(a) He stole things.
(b) He kept her awake all night.
(c) He always ate her food.
(d) He tried to kill Diggity.

10. Which of the camels was responsible for their escape in Chapter 4?
(a) Bub.
(b) Zelly.
(c) Dookie.
(d) Diggity.

11. What was the name of Robyn's dog?
(a) Scout.
(b) Roo.
(c) Doggy.
(d) Diggity.

12. What unexpected thing did Sallay discover about Zeleika?
(a) She was uncontrollable.
(b) She was about to die.
(c) She was pregnant.
(d) She had blood poisoning.

13. Why did Robyn find it impossible to get more work in town in order to make money?
(a) Only men were given jobs.
(b) The camels took up too much time.
(c) The economy was slow.
(d) She had cut her foot open on glass.

14. Why did Robyn sometimes find it difficult to track her camels?
(a) They erased their prints as they walked.
(b) They left no scent.
(c) Their footprints got mixed up.
(d) They ran too fast.

15. What was Diggity's all-consuming passion?
(a) Eating the camel food.
(b) Helping Robyn track lost camels.
(c) Chasing camels.
(d) Chasing kangaroos and rabbits.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the range affect the people of Alice?

2. What became the last straw for Robyn, leading her to leave her job at the pub?

3. What was it about the visiting politico in Chapter 5 that Robyn was so jealous of?

4. What type of land surrounds Alice?

5. What was Zelika's nature?

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