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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who did Robyn meet on the road in Chapter 11, thinking they might be bush people?
(a) Her friend, Jen.
(b) The popular press.
(c) Aboriginal tribesmen.
(d) Rick.

3. What made Robyn set a compass course for Ayers Rock instead of staying on the road?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Photographers.
(d) Wild camels.

4. Who did Eddie run into while he and Robyn were walking in Pipalyatjara one evening?
(a) His daughter.
(b) His father.
(c) His wife.
(d) His son.

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

6. What did Robyn refer to as being "four hundred miles of spinifex wastes"?
(a) Wiya.
(b) The Gibson Desert.
(c) Warburton.
(d) Carnegie Station.

7. How did Robyn learn to keep herself warm on the cold desert nights in Chapter 10?
(a) By drinking tea.
(b) By lying under her dog.
(c) By burying herself in the sand.
(d) By shivering.

8. What did Robyn find out about her feelings for Eddie in Chapter 9?
(a) She felt ignored by him.
(b) She loved traveling with him.
(c) She resented him.
(d) She hated his voice.

9. What was one of the reasons that Robyn decided to let Rick accompany her to Docker River?
(a) She was fearful of the travel there.
(b) He wanted photos of Aborigines.
(c) She was in love with him.
(d) He bribed her.

10. How did Robyn and Eddie communicate?
(a) They played charades.
(b) By writing notes.
(c) In Pitjantjara.
(d) In English.

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

12. What are claypans?
(a) Clumps of spinifex.
(b) Scultured mounds of rocks and pebbles.
(c) Pale pink sandstone.
(d) Flat brown hard-baked Euclidean surfaces.

13. Who was Peter Muir?
(a) A reporter.
(b) A town doctor.
(c) A vet.
(d) A bushman.

14. What time, approximately, did the camels awaken while on the trails in Chapter 6?
(a) At dawn.
(b) Eight o'clock.
(c) More than an hour before dawn.
(d) Very near noon.

15. What was the closest thing Robyn had to keeping a diary?
(a) Writing letters.
(b) Dictating into a recorder.
(c) Photographs.
(d) Dreams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of Glendle's failures at Pipalyatjara?

2. What did the Aboriginals call Ayers Rock?

3. What had Sallay strongly warned Robyn to fear the most in the desert?

4. What was the visible link between Aboriginal people and their land?

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

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