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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. Who came into the pub to try and talk Robyn into coming back to him?
(a) Kurt.
(b) Sallay.
(c) Gladdy.
(d) The young geologist.

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

3. How did Kurt refer to the tourists?
(a) The bloody idiots.
(b) The good people.
(c) The terrorists.
(d) The town friends.

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

5. What did nearly everyone warn Robyn about?
(a) Camping with the Aborigines.
(b) Getting to know any blacks.
(c) Working with camels.
(d) Staying with local people.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nancy was introduced in Chapter 2. Who was she?

2. What was able to snap Robyn out of her depression in Chapter 4?

3. Which was one of the most successful Aboriginal communities in the territory?

4. What did Robyn have to throw into Kate's neck, as ordered by the vet?

5. What did the blue smoke seen by Robyn through the gum leaves indicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led Robyn to realize that she must work on her survival techniques in Chapter 5?

2. What did Robyn begin to discover about herself and people in Chapter 2?

3. How did the author explain her feelings towards having a home to herself at Basso's Farm?

4. What was apartheid originally set up in South Africa to accomplish?

5. What types of people made up the thirteen thousand white people living in Alice?

6. In Chapter 4, how had Kurt become a large focus in Robyn's life?

7. How did Robyn describe Utopia?

8. According to Robyn, what was the current Australian male like as compared to the men who first settled Australia?

9. What led Robyn to nearly jump over the bar and prevent a policeman from beating someone?

10. When Robyn and her friends finally found the lost camels in Chapter 5, what sort of shape were the animals in?

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