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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.
(b) They are whipped.
(c) They are forced into slavery.
(d) They are hung.

2. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?
(a) They refused it.
(b) They were angry.
(c) With gratitude.
(d) They did not understand.

3. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers are unarmed.
(b) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.
(c) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.
(d) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.

4. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
(a) Almost 2,000 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) Under 10 years.
(d) Over 40,000 years.

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

6. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(b) All the animals have been frightened away.
(c) They are blocked by fences.
(d) There are houses built on them.

7. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?
(a) Jobs must be provided on the farms for the Aboriginal people.
(b) A percentage of the food produced must be given to Aboriginal people.
(c) Large areas of land were given to European farmers, without thought for the Aboriginal people living there.
(d) Areas of land were given back to Aboriginal people.

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

9. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Captain Freeman.
(b) Constable Riggs.
(c) Captain James Stirling.
(d) Arthur Carberry.

10. How do the settlers allocate land?
(a) They are allowed to choose land wherever they want.
(b) The land is bought off the Aboriginals.
(c) Each person is given a grant of land by the English government.
(d) The Aboriginals decide.

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

12. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?
(a) Sealing and whaling.
(b) Capturing Aboriginals to sell as slaves.
(c) Looking for lost treasure.
(d) Trying to find a new home.

13. How do they justify this?
(a) The white people are evil.
(b) The food should be shared.
(c) They will die if they do not.
(d) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.

14. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Keep up their Englishness.
(b) Take as much land as possible.
(c) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(d) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.

15. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One hundred miles.
(b) One hundred thousand acres.
(c) Five acres.
(d) One million square miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is this carried out?

2. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

3. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?

4. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

5. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

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