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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Robyn left Warburton in July, how long did she have to go before expecting to see another human being?
(a) Six months.
(b) One month.
(c) Two days.
(d) A week.

2. Finish this statement that a very wise friend of Robyn's from Alice once told her: When things go wrong on the track, rather than panic, boil the billy, sit down and __________.
(a) Think clearly.
(b) Meditate.
(c) Write out a plan.
(d) Call a friend.

3. According to Robyn, when were photographers most brave?
(a) When asleep.
(b) When on their home turf.
(c) When looking through a lens.
(d) When setting up a shot.

4. What happened to Diggity in Chapter 10?
(a) She ran away.
(b) She bit Robyn.
(c) She drank some bad water.
(d) She died.

5. What did sleeping next to someone connote in Pitjantjara?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Romance.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Breaking the laws.

6. What did Eddie give Robyn on the trail to give her energy?
(a) Pituri.
(b) Wine.
(c) Ash.
(d) Gum.

7. What was the desert like, as observed by Robyn, contrary to popular beliefs?
(a) Empty and dull.
(b) Lacking in wild foods.
(c) Bountiful with life.
(d) Hell.

8. What was the noise that Robyn heard in Chapter 11 that she found the most chilling, hair-lifting sound she had ever heard?
(a) Dingoes.
(b) The wind.
(c) Aboriginal tribes.
(d) Bull camels.

9. What surprise did Rick have for Robyn in Chapter 7?
(a) Jen.
(b) Film.
(c) New camels.
(d) A ring.

10. What did the camels finally get a hold of by the end of Chapter 11?
(a) Cherries.
(b) Grapes.
(c) A bush.
(d) Honey.

11. What was the Pitjantjara's belief about who once traversed the earth?
(a) Dinosaurs.
(b) Those like themselves.
(c) White men.
(d) Ancestral beings.

12. How did Robyn ensure that reporters would not hunt her down to Woodleigh Station?
(a) She claimed to already have arrived there.
(b) She sent a fake telegram to Rick.
(c) She pretended to break a leg.
(d) She sent the camels back to Alice.

13. What is a wilcha?
(a) Meat.
(b) A type of junk food.
(c) A temporary wind break.
(d) A type of kangaroo.

14. What idea did Robyn want to share with the world, opposite of the press she was receiving?
(a) The world is a dangerous place for girls.
(b) Anyone can do anything.
(c) She had done something ordinary people cannot do.
(d) She was exceptional.

15. Who called Eddie "Jacky-Jacky" in Chapter 9?
(a) Glendle.
(b) A tourist.
(c) His wife.
(d) Robyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. What helped Robyn figure out what happened to her two lost camels in Chapter 10?

2. How did Robyn's obsession with Rick and anger at the Geographic begin to fade?

3. What had been going on for the past 160 years between the Aboriginal people and the Australian government?

4. How did Robyn treat her camels while traveling in the bush?

5. What did Robyn find out about her feelings for Eddie in Chapter 9?

(see the answer keys)

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