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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 Glendle's major responsibility?
(a) Giving out supplies.
(b) Devising a town budget.
(c) The distribution of money.
(d) Coordinating elections.

2. When Robyn left Warburton in July, how long did she have to go before expecting to see another human being?
(a) Two days.
(b) Six months.
(c) A week.
(d) One month.

3. What was Robyn's most memorable feeling of her first day alone, after Rick left in Chapter 6?
(a) Sadness.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Guilt.
(d) Loneliness.

4. Finish this statement that a very wise friend of Robyn's from Alice once told her: When things go wrong on the track, rather than panic, boil the billy, sit down and __________.
(a) Think clearly.
(b) Write out a plan.
(c) Call a friend.
(d) Meditate.

5. How did Robyn's obsession with Rick and anger at the Geographic begin to fade?
(a) By getting more money.
(b) By offering an apology.
(c) By writing it all out.
(d) By talking with Glendle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Slim Dusty?

2. What disease affects Aborigines more than any other race, in terms of ethnic disease rates?

3. What is a wilcha?

4. What did Eddie give Robyn on the trail to give her energy?

5. Where did Eddie accompany Robin to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why wasn't Robyn looking forward to arriving at Ayers Rock?

2. What were the nuisances Robyn had to deal with when searching for a good camping spot?

3. What was Robyn's reaction when Rick did not show up as expected on the trail, in Chapter 7?

4. Why did Robyn want to keep a fair distance covered, resting only one day a week?

5. How did racism play a role in Wiluna when Robyn and Rick were invited to a dance?

6. Why did the death of her dog have such a profound effect upon Robyn?

7. In Robyn's letter to her friend, Steve, what did she intimate to him about her feelings toward this adventure?

8. How did Robyn cope in Chapter 10 when four wild bull camels were coming towards her, looking for trouble?

9. Robyn followed an abandoned track in Chapter 6. What is the definition of a track in Australia?

10. What habit did Robyn develop from the first night on the trail in order to check on her camels?

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