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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Eddie accompany Robin to?
(a) Docker.
(b) Ayers Rock.
(c) Warburton.
(d) The Olgas.

2. When in doubt and lost, as Robyn became in Chapter 6, what was Robyn's advice to follow?
(a) Ask someone.
(b) Follow the sun.
(c) Meditate.
(d) Trust your instincts.

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

4. What adjective did Robyn use to describe the green landscape of the sandhills in Chapter 7?
(a) Brilliant.
(b) Sea water.
(c) Day-glo.
(d) Olive-like.

5. What did Robyn learn to live with in the desert, even though they swarmed around her and the camels in the thousands?
(a) Flies.
(b) Bats.
(c) Wasps.
(d) Bees.

6. What helped Robyn figure out what happened to her two lost camels in Chapter 10?
(a) Droppings.
(b) A compass.
(c) The tracks.
(d) Goliath.

7. 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) A week.
(d) Two days.

8. What did Robyn replenish when she arrived at the station, at the end of Chapter 6?
(a) Rainwater.
(b) Clothing.
(c) Camel medicine.
(d) Blankets.

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

10. When making camp in a dust-bowl in Chapter 10, what did Robyn unselfconsciously do with the animals?
(a) Beat them.
(b) Pet them lovingly.
(c) Play with them.
(d) Sleep next to them.

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

12. Why did Rick come racing around to track down Robyn in Chapter 11?
(a) To give her a ride to the end of the journey.
(b) He knew Robyn lost her dog.
(c) He missed Robyn.
(d) He read in the news that Robyn was lost.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Robyn's favorite time of day when traveling in the Ayers Rock area?

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

3. How did RIck throw the reporters off Robyn's path in Chapter 11?

4. What final disaster occurred in Chapter 12?

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

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