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

2. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Take as much land as possible.
(b) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(c) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(d) Keep up their Englishness.

3. What is the Mardudjara?
(a) An area of Australia where beautiful flowers grow.
(b) An Aboriginal god.
(c) A settlement for Aboriginal people.
(d) Several tribes of Aboriginal people who live in the desert regions.

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

5. How do the settlers allocate land?
(a) The Aboriginals decide.
(b) The land is bought off the Aboriginals.
(c) Each person is given a grant of land by the English government.
(d) They are allowed to choose land wherever they want.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the military outpost there for?

2. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

3. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?

4. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

5. How do they justify this?

(see the answer key)

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