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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. What becomes a regular weekend event?
(a) A ritual dance.
(b) Pilgrimages into the Law.
(c) Telling stories of the ancestors around the communal fire.
(d) Hunting and gathering traditional foods.

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants their permission to name the area.
(b) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(c) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.
(d) He wants them to put some clothes on.

3. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Amity.
(c) Koolinda.
(d) Challenger.

4. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(b) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(c) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.
(d) He wants to join the army.

5. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?
(a) He is given his wife back, but the white man is not punished.
(b) The white man is punished.
(c) He is given a bag of flour.
(d) He is whipped.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

3. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

4. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?

5. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?

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