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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. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) The Aboriginal men fight them off.
(b) They do not have enough food.
(c) There is a large storm coming.
(d) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.

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

3. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) A train.
(b) An army of white men.
(c) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(d) White men on a hunting trip.

4. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) How to use guns.
(d) That all their beliefs are false.

5. What is the Mardudjara?
(a) A settlement for Aboriginal people.
(b) An area of Australia where beautiful flowers grow.
(c) An Aboriginal god.
(d) Several tribes of Aboriginal people who live in the desert regions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

2. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

3. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

4. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe life in an Aboriginal tribe.

2. How do the Aboriginal people react to Captain Fremantle and the arrival of Stirling and his colonists?

3. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Mardu people?

4. Is there anything positive about Moore River?

5. What could the wildflowers, plants and animals that the girls see symbolize?

6. Why do you think the white people prevent the Aborigines from carrying out their traditional rituals and dances?

7. How do the white people at the depot react to the birth of the mixed race child?

8. Why are the Aborigines afraid of white men?

9. Describe what happens when some white workers violate sacred Mardu land.

10. Why has the arrival of white colonists been bad for the Aboriginal people?

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