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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 does the Superintendent feel about the baby?
(a) He is embarrassed that she was born at his station.
(b) He is angry with Maude.
(c) He says nice things.
(d) He thinks she is disgusting.

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

3. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.
(b) To drive off the white men.
(c) For a religious ritual.
(d) To clear an area to build houses on.

4. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?
(a) They build permanent houses.
(b) They make it the gathering place for all the tribes.
(c) Sacred objects are brought and buried there.
(d) They chase out all the white people and claim it for themselves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Mardudjara?

2. What are the white men compared to?

3. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

4. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?

5. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

(see the answer key)

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