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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Robyn develop a close friendship with in Chapter 2?
(a) Kurt.
(b) Fulerton.
(c) Gladdy.
(d) One of the many camels.

3. Where did Robyn get a job her second day in Alice?
(a) A newspaper.
(b) A train depot.
(c) A pub.
(d) A tourist company.

4. Where did Ada Baxter live?
(a) The room at the pub.
(b) At the back of Basso's Farm.
(c) In Kurt's stable.
(d) At the campgrounds.

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

6. What was the "dog window" in some Northern Territory bars?
(a) The cashier's payment window.
(b) A back window where liquor was sold to blacks.
(c) An entrance for customers' dogs.
(d) The area in which women were served.

7. What did a visiting politico accuse Robyn of being?
(a) A conservative party member.
(b) Too liberal.
(c) A bourgeois individualist.
(d) A communist.

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) Stepping into Alice Springs.
(c) Purchasing a boomerang.
(d) Seeing the Todd River flow three times.

9. What did Frankie and Clivie do to Robyn?
(a) Teased her.
(b) Lied to her.
(c) Brought her presents.
(d) Stole from her.

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

11. Who waited very patiently and faithfully while Robyn searched for the three lost camels?
(a) Diggity.
(b) Jen.
(c) Toly.
(d) Julie.

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

13. What type of land surrounds Alice?
(a) Jungle.
(b) Desert.
(c) Farmland.
(d) Swamp.

14. What did Robyn's pet crow, Akhnaton, do that became increasingly annoying to her?
(a) He kept her awake all night.
(b) He stole things.
(c) He always ate her food.
(d) He tried to kill Diggity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money did Robyn receive from National Geographic?

2. What part of Zeleika's body became infected in Chapter 3?

3. What was the most economically successful and well-organized camp in town?

4. Whose needs did Kurt believe must come first?

5. How did the range affect the people of Alice?

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