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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. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(b) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(c) They have been around for a very long time.
(d) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.

2. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In brick houses.
(b) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(c) In small mud huts.
(d) In shelters made from branches and bark.

3. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(d) Captain Fremantle.

4. What were the white construction workers doing?
(a) Sinking wells.
(b) Laying railway tracks.
(c) Building a barn.
(d) Building houses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?

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

3. Who names the baby Molly?

4. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

5. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?

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