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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7 & 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Robyn's first contact with Aboriginal people along her journey?
(a) Melbourne.
(b) Black Rock.
(c) Areyonga.
(d) Glen Helen.

2. What was there in the Alice that sounded just like a camel bell, often fooling Robyn?
(a) A humming bird.
(b) The car horns.
(c) A railroad train.
(d) A wedge-bill bird.

3. What did Robyn have to throw into Kate's neck, as ordered by the vet?
(a) A syringe with an antibiotic.
(b) A vaccine shot.
(c) An anesthetic-filled syringe.
(d) A certain healing dust.

4. Why did Robyn sometimes find it difficult to track her camels?
(a) They left no scent.
(b) Their footprints got mixed up.
(c) They erased their prints as they walked.
(d) They ran too fast.

5. What did Robyn do to Kate at the end of Chapter 3?
(a) Operated on her.
(b) Stripped her hide.
(c) Sold her.
(d) Shot her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What feeling overcame Robyn when she had to fly back to Alice Springs in Chapter 7?

2. What did Robyn coldly contemplate doing one night when she slept over at Gladdy's house in Chapter 4?

3. Who did Robyn develop a close friendship with in Chapter 2?

4. What point of view does the author use?

5. How were the Aborigines referred to by the girl Robyn shared a tent with?

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