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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of Sallay's wife?
(a) Iris.
(b) Gladdy.
(c) Sandra.
(d) Ida.

3. How did the local folklore claim to make people fall in love with the Alice?
(a) Stepping into Alice Springs.
(b) Purchasing a boomerang.
(c) Seeing the Todd River flow three times.
(d) Seeing the range for the first time.

4. How old was Joanie?
(a) Twenty-four.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Fourteen.

5. What did Robyn coldly contemplate doing one night when she slept over at Gladdy's house in Chapter 4?
(a) Committing suicide.
(b) Harming Gladdy.
(c) Going home.
(d) Killing Kurt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the only type of job the Aborigine child was likely to get upon finishing school?

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

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

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

5. What was there in the Alice that sounded just like a camel bell, often fooling Robyn?

(see the answer key)

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