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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 did nearly everyone warn Robyn about?

2. What did Robyn suffer from during her dress rehearsal and pre-meeting with the Americans in Chapter 5?

3. What did a visiting politico accuse Robyn of being?

4. How old was Joanie?

5. What point of view does the author use?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Robyn describe Utopia?

2. What gave Robyn second thoughts about how easy her project would actually be?

3. Why do camels hate to be on their own?

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

5. What myths about camels did Robyn destroy for the reader?

6. How did Kurt treat Robyn in the beginning?

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

8. How did Robyn get the new owner of Kurt's ranch to give her the two camels she wanted in return for giving him lessons?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the socioeconomic problems faced by the Aborigines in Australia. Include the Australian government's system of assimilation in your discussion.

Essay Topic 2

Explain Robyn's motivations for wanting to travel across the desert with camels. Explain why it had become not merely a trip or adventure, but something far more to her.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Robyn's inner fears and lack of self-confidence at certain points in the book.

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