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

2. Who names the baby Molly?
(a) The baby's grandmother.
(b) Maude's father.
(c) Maude.
(d) The father.

3. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?
(a) That they would not love their darker skinned families.
(b) That they were monsters.
(c) That they were more intelligent than other Aboriginal children.
(d) That they were inferior to the 'pure whites' and 'pure blacks.'

4. What are the white men compared to?
(a) Stampeding herds.
(b) Flesh eating spirits.
(c) A terrible storm.
(d) Bush fires out of control.

5. Why do new arrivals at the school create hope?
(a) The children hope for news from back home.
(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 that the new arrivals will get picked on instead of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?

2. How do they justify this?

3. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?

4. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?

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

(see the answer key)

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