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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Jigalong, 1907-1931.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Horses.
(b) Lions.
(c) Foxes.
(d) Mice.

2. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(b) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(c) Animals attacking their camp.
(d) White men fighting each other on the beach.

3. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) As adolescents.
(b) Between five and ten years old.
(c) At twenty-five.
(d) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.

4. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They offered them poisoned food.
(b) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(c) They told them there was good land further down the coast.
(d) They pretended to be gods.

5. How is this carried out?
(a) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(b) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(c) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(d) Building very grand houses.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

2. Where is Maude's baby born?

3. How does Molly's father interact with his child?

4. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?

5. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?

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