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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. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will be driven from their lands.
(b) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(c) That they will have to work for the white people.
(d) That the white people will declare war on them.

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

3. 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) Refuse to eat.
(d) Take some of the white children in retaliation.

4. Who does Miss Campbell hand the girls over to when they reach the Moore River School?
(a) The caretaker.
(b) Miss Evans.
(c) Martha Jones.
(d) Polly Martin.

5. Why do new arrivals at the school create hope?
(a) The children hope that the new arrivals will get picked on instead of them.
(b) The children hope that the new arrivals might be able to escape.
(c) The children hope that the new arrivals will be their friends.
(d) The children hope for news from back home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Violet Williams being punished?

2. How do they justify this?

3. Where is Maude's baby born?

4. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?

5. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?

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