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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7: The Moore River Native Settlement, 1931.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Cut off all their hair.
(b) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(c) Take some of the white children in retaliation.
(d) Refuse to eat.

2. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?
(a) Food, and safety from the white people.
(b) It is a place where they can learn English.
(c) No guns are allowed in the settlement.
(d) They will be able to live in houses rather than stick shelters.

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

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

5. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.
(b) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(c) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(d) Happy to be out among nature again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?

2. How do the girls keep warm that night?

3. Why does Martha warn the girls not to go near the cave?

4. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?

5. What becomes a regular weekend event?

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