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

2. What is the punishment for running away?
(a) They are locked away from the other children permanently.
(b) Their heads are shaved and they are whipped.
(c) They are not allowed meat for a month.
(d) They are branded with a mark that identifies them as runaways.

3. Why was Jiigalong established?
(a) As a colony for new European settlers.
(b) As a settlement for Aborigines.
(c) As a base for maintenance workers on the rabbit-proof fence.
(d) As a school to teach Aboriginal children to speak English.

4. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.
(b) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(c) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(d) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Molly decide that night?

3. Who does Miss Campbell hand the girls over to when they reach the Moore River School?

4. What are the white men compared to?

5. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?

(see the answer key)

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