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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Decline of Aboriginal Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They force them to wear clothes.
(b) They enslave them.
(c) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.
(d) They make it illegal for them to have children.

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(b) A ship's horn.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) Roars of dangerous animals.

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is whipped.
(b) The white man is punished.
(c) He is given a bag of flour.
(d) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.

5. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With their teeth.
(b) With sharp stones.
(c) With bears' teeth.
(d) With knives and forks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?

3. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?

4. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

5. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?

(see the answer key)

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