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

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

3. What was the most economically successful and well-organized camp in town?
(a) Todd Camp.
(b) Camp Cook.
(c) Camp Dora.
(d) Mt. Nancy.

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

5. How much money did Robyn receive from National Geographic?
(a) Four thousand dollars.
(b) Forty thousand dollars.
(c) Four hundred dollars.
(d) Forty dollars.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Blue?

3. What did Robyn consider taking money from National Geographic to be?

4. What made Robyn decide that the second person she visited was not the right person to learn from?

5. What is a camel's kicking radius?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What became the last straw for Robyn, making her decide to leave Kurt in Chapter 2?

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

4. How did Robyn deal with the knowledge that the photojournalist, Rick, would be intruding upon her solitary journey?

5. Why did Robyn suspect that the camels disappeared one day in Chapter 4?

6. What incident led Robyn to quit her job at the pub?

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

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

9. When a man sat beside Robyn on her train to Alice Springs, what was his attitude toward her?

10. In Chapter 5, Robyn met Rick. What stood out about Rick in Robyn's memory?

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