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

2. What does Molly decide that night?
(a) That she must protect Gracie and Daisy.
(b) That they must play along with the rules so that they are not punished.
(c) That they must escape.
(d) That she will never accept white culture.

3. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(b) Take as much land as possible.
(c) Keep up their Englishness.
(d) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.

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

5. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?
(a) Worship their own gods.
(b) Speak their own language.
(c) Play games.
(d) Have lessons together.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are black servants paid?

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

3. What is 'the boob'?

4. How do they justify this?

5. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

(see the answer key)

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