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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 long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
(a) Over 40,000 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) Almost 2,000 years.
(d) Under 10 years.

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

3. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) They do not have enough food.
(b) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(c) The Aboriginal men fight them off.
(d) There is a large storm coming.

4. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?
(a) Put clothes on.
(b) Learn English.
(c) Become Christian.
(d) Wash.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a wuungku?

2. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

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

4. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?

5. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?

(see the answer key)

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