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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was there in the Alice that sounded just like a camel bell, often fooling Robyn?
(a) A humming bird.
(b) The car horns.
(c) A railroad train.
(d) A wedge-bill bird.

2. What was wrong with Kate in Chapter 3?
(a) She was pregnant.
(b) She broke her knee.
(c) She had a toothache.
(d) She had blood poisoning.

3. What did Robyn tell Gladdy her feelings were about the town so far?
(a) It had too many drinking men.
(b) She loved it.
(c) It was horrible.
(d) She could live there forever.

4. What caused Robyn to sit on the riverbank and weep for 30 minutes in Chapter 4?
(a) Bub's foot was cut badly.
(b) She was lost in the desert.
(c) Zelly had her baby camel.
(d) Dookie tried to kill her again.

5. What do camels' feces resemble?
(a) Long worms.
(b) Neat round little pebbles.
(c) Large mounds of rocks.
(d) Mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Robyn and the photographer, Rick, went their separate ways in Chapter 5, where did they arrange to meet again on Robyn's trail?

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

3. Nancy was introduced in Chapter 2. Who was she?

4. What ultimately happened to Clivie in Chapter 3?

5. What insect lived in the Basso's Farm home that Robyn detested the most?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do camels hate to be on their own?

2. How did Robyn deal with the knowledge that the photojournalist, Rick, would be intruding upon her solitary journey?

3. Why did Kurt's camel, Dookie, attack Robyn?

4. Who was the first person who did not greet Robyn's ideas with patronizing disbelief?

5. How did Sallay become Robyn's camel-guru and savior in Chapter 2?

6. According to Robyn, what was the current Australian male like as compared to the men who first settled Australia?

7. When a man sat beside Robyn on her train to Alice Springs, what was his attitude toward her?

8. What did Janie think about her future?

9. How did Robyn get the new owner of Kurt's ranch to give her the two camels she wanted in return for giving him lessons?

10. What myths about camels did Robyn destroy for the reader?

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