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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. How did the range affect the people of Alice?

2. Who was Bubby?

3. What crime had someone been committing in Alice for the past twenty years, without detection?

4. Who waited very patiently and faithfully while Robyn searched for the three lost camels?

5. What was the modern-day manifestation of the Australian male?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What were Robyn's feelings when she shot Kate?

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

10. How did Robyn describe Utopia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Robyn's relationship with Eddie to that of her relationship with Rick.

Essay Topic 2

One night, in Chapter 2, Robyn was drunk on tequila, and she had a vision of three camels in the night. What did her vision foreshadow for Robyn's journey? Explain how this prophecy came to be true.

Essay Topic 3

When the trip was finally over, what had Robin learned about herself and about other people in general?

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