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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5: Jigalong, 1907-1931.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do they justify this?
(a) The white people are evil.
(b) The food should be shared.
(c) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.
(d) They will die if they do not.

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

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

4. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?
(a) Rain: the tracks are easy to see, and the animals are less alert.
(b) Windy: the wind blows the hunters' scent away.
(c) Sunny: it is easier to see and run in sunny weather.
(d) Misty: the animals can't see the hunters coming.

5. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?
(a) The workers dug up a sacred site.
(b) The workers burned down large areas of brush to build on.
(c) The workers refused to share their food.
(d) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

4. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?

5. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

(see the answer key)

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