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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 do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Hide their babies in animal skins.
(b) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.
(c) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(d) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.

2. Why is Violet Williams being punished?
(a) She swore at a teacher.
(b) She hit a teacher.
(c) She was caught kissing a boy.
(d) She stole some food.

3. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only on very cold nights.
(b) Only if they have been well behaved.
(c) The beds always have sheets.
(d) Only when special visitors come.

4. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?
(a) They celebrate Christmas.
(b) Marriages take place only at this time of year.
(c) Traditional ceremonies and rituals are performed.
(d) War is declared on the white people.

5. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Kill all the white people.
(b) Take one of the white people's sheep.
(c) Take the white women hostage.
(d) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Maude's baby born?

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

3. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?

4. How does Molly's father interact with his child?

5. How is this carried out?

(see the answer key)

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