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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) A week.
(c) One month.
(d) Two days.

2. When was Robyn's favorite time of day when traveling in the Ayers Rock area?
(a) Night.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Midday.

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

4. Where was Rick and Robyn's next anticipated meeting place once he drove across Gunbarrel Highway?
(a) Wiluna.
(b) Glenayle.
(c) Carnegie.
(d) The sea.

5. What had been going on for the past 160 years between the Aboriginal people and the Australian government?
(a) Peace talks.
(b) Fair trade.
(c) Undeclared war.
(d) Slavery as in the Old South of the USA.

6. What was the best type of footwear for Robyn to wear in the desert?
(a) Sandals.
(b) Bare feet.
(c) Running shoes.
(d) Boots.

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

8. In what way did Robyn have to adjust to Eddie?
(a) His hectic schedule.
(b) To his leisurely pace.
(c) The sleepless nights.
(d) His loud comments.

9. What feeling overcame Robyn when she had to fly back to Alice Springs in Chapter 7?
(a) Anticipation.
(b) Hope.
(c) Defeat.
(d) Nostalgia.

10. Who was Robyn with when she had her first encounter with a wild bull?
(a) Olga.
(b) She was alone.
(c) Rick.
(d) Glenys.

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

12. What led Robyn to have a very long and tense afternoon in Chapter 10?
(a) She set a fire.
(b) Bull camels approached her.
(c) She lost the water.
(d) She got lost.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 10, what was usually on the sandhills and about six feet across and four feet high?

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

4. What did Robyn and Rick see on their drive back along the Canning in Chapter 11?

5. What did Robyn refer to as being "four hundred miles of spinifex wastes"?

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