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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ultimately happened to Clivie in Chapter 3?
(a) He was sent to a boys' home.
(b) He became a policeman.
(c) He became a great friend of Robyn's.
(d) He was hit by a car.

2. Why was the man who sold the camels to Robyn in Chapter 4 so upset, even after the deal was made?
(a) The camels continued to stray onto his land.
(b) The man had not learned enough from Robyn.
(c) He realized he undersold them.
(d) He missed the camel, Dookie, too much.

3. How did the range affect the people of Alice?
(a) It made them hungry.
(b) It sent them troppo.
(c) It irritated most of them.
(d) It made them feel very important.

4. What became the last straw for Robyn, leading her to leave her job at the pub?
(a) The brutal policeman.
(b) The lack of money.
(c) The man who urinated against the bar.
(d) The excrement on her pillow.

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

6. What did Kurt take a strange pleasure in watching Robyn do?
(a) Eat.
(b) Get bitten by the camels.
(c) Get callusses.
(d) Sleep.

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

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

9. What did Robyn suffer from during her dress rehearsal and pre-meeting with the Americans in Chapter 5?
(a) A cold.
(b) Severe stage fright.
(c) A bout of pneumonia.
(d) The flu.

10. What happened to destroy Robyn's tent, forcing her back into Kurt's home?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) Strong lightning.
(c) A hailstorm.
(d) A blizzard.

11. 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.

12. What was the only type of job the Aborigine child was likely to get upon finishing school?
(a) Owning a business.
(b) Teaching.
(c) Corporation work.
(d) Itinerant station work.

13. What did Kurt insist on helping Robyn get, which turned out to not be worth the effort?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A crow.
(c) A baby camel.
(d) A crane.

14. Who came into the pub to try and talk Robyn into coming back to him?
(a) The young geologist.
(b) Sallay.
(c) Gladdy.
(d) Kurt.

15. What was the section of the pub Robyn worked in?
(a) The Inner Bar.
(b) The Lounge Bar.
(c) The Saloon Bar.
(d) The Pool Room.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gave Robyn emotional support at the end of Chapter 3?

2. What did Robyn write home, as a joke, to indicate what types of animals she was training?

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

4. Who provided Robyn with a tent to live in so she could have more privacy?

5. Who was Julie, introduced in Chapter 4?

(see the answer keys)

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