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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What crime had someone been committing in Alice for the past twenty years, without detection?
(a) Laying traps for camels.
(b) Robbing homes.
(c) Poisoning dogs.
(d) Robbing banks.

2. What was the closest thing to a Zen statement to come out of Australia concerning the baby camel, Goliath?
(a) Friends are worth their weight in gold.
(b) All you need is to love her.
(c) She'll be right, mate.
(d) Simply let her be.

3. Who was Peter Latz?
(a) An ethnobotanist.
(b) A veterinarian.
(c) An anthropologist.
(d) A lawyer.

4. When Robyn and the photographer, Rick, went their separate ways in Chapter 5, where did they arrange to meet again on Robyn's trail?
(a) Alice Springs.
(b) Ayers Rock.
(c) Wallera Ranch.
(d) Docker River.

5. What did Robyn find to be the most excruciating thing to cope with, both before and after her trip?
(a) Learning to make and fix things.
(b) Lack of money.
(c) Training camels.
(d) The people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Joanie?

2. What did sleeping next to someone connote in Pitjantjara?

3. What became the last straw for Robyn, leading her to leave her job at the pub?

4. Why did Robyn sometimes find it difficult to track her camels?

5. What was the "dog window" in some Northern Territory bars?

(see the answer key)

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