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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who were Alcoota, Kate and Zeleika?
(a) Robyn's sisters.
(b) Camels.
(c) Robyn's best friends.
(d) Robyn's employers.

3. What did Robyn own in order to keep herself protected, as a woman who lived alone?
(a) Sharp knives.
(b) Attack dogs.
(c) A wedding ring.
(d) Guns.

4. What was the modern-day manifestation of the Australian male?
(a) Charming, sober and effeminate.
(b) Easygoing, educated and fun.
(c) Biased, brutal and boring.
(d) Mannerly, adventuresome and handsome.

5. What did Robyn have with her when she first arrived in Alice?
(a) A dog, six dollars and two suitcases.
(b) Two dogs, six dollars and a large suitcase.
(c) Sixty dollars, a cat and a tote bag.
(d) A dog, six dollars and a small suitcase.

6. 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) Wallera Ranch.
(b) Docker River.
(c) Ayers Rock.
(d) Alice Springs.

7. What did Rick talk Robyn into doing?
(a) Getting married.
(b) Going to Utopia.
(c) Writing to National Geographic.
(d) Canceling her trip.

8. 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) The people.
(c) Training camels.
(d) Lack of money.

9. What did nearly everyone warn Robyn about?
(a) Getting to know any blacks.
(b) Working with camels.
(c) Camping with the Aborigines.
(d) Staying with local people.

10. What was it about the visiting politico in Chapter 5 that Robyn was so jealous of?
(a) His wealth.
(b) His new clothing.
(c) His job.
(d) His high I.Q.

11. Nancy was introduced in Chapter 2. Who was she?
(a) Sallay's wife.
(b) Robyn's sister.
(c) Robyn's best friend.
(d) Another camel trainer.

12. How much money did Robyn receive from National Geographic?
(a) Four hundred dollars.
(b) Forty thousand dollars.
(c) Forty dollars.
(d) Four thousand dollars.

13. What did camels wear in order for their owners to keep track of their whereabouts?
(a) Ankle bracelets.
(b) Microchips.
(c) Collars.
(d) Bells.

14. What do camels' feces resemble?
(a) Neat round little pebbles.
(b) Mud.
(c) Large mounds of rocks.
(d) Long worms.

15. What insect lived in the Basso's Farm home that Robyn detested the most?
(a) Fire ants.
(b) Cockroaches.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Leeches.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who lived in Basso's Farm?

3. What did Toly and Jenny build for Robyn behind Basso's?

4. What was the name of Robyn's dog?

5. When did Zelly decide to give birth?

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