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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. How did Kurt refer to the tourists?
(a) The good people.
(b) The town friends.
(c) The terrorists.
(d) The bloody idiots.

2. Who provided Robyn with a tent to live in so she could have more privacy?
(a) Gladdy.
(b) The tenants of Basso's Farm.
(c) Kurt.
(d) Her sister.

3. Who was Bubby?
(a) The bartender at the pub.
(b) Kurt's bull.
(c) Kurt's first wife.
(d) Robyn's boyfriend.

4. Which was one of the most successful Aboriginal communities in the territory?
(a) Utopia.
(b) The Alice.
(c) The Nelly.
(d) Basso's Farm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Robyn's dog?

2. What was Zelika's nature?

3. What was the "dog window" in some Northern Territory bars?

4. What did Robyn suffer from during her dress rehearsal and pre-meeting with the Americans in Chapter 5?

5. What type of terrain do camels find it very difficult to handle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was apartheid originally set up in South Africa to accomplish?

3. Why did Robyn suspect that the camels disappeared one day in Chapter 4?

4. What types of people made up the thirteen thousand white people living in Alice?

5. When Robyn and her friends finally found the lost camels in Chapter 5, what sort of shape were the animals in?

6. How did Robyn try to keep Kurt's maniacal temper under control after Gladdy left him?

7. 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?

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

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

10. How did the author explain her feelings towards having a home to herself at Basso's Farm?

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