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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. When do Aboriginal girls marry?
(a) Aboriginal people do not have a concept of marriage.
(b) Between five and ten years old.
(c) At twenty-five.
(d) As adolescents.

2. Why does Molly sometimes wish she didn't have light skin?
(a) She is afraid she will be taken away.
(b) The other children insult her.
(c) She thinks darker skin is prettier.
(d) She thinks the spirits will hate her.

3. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.
(b) They are hung.
(c) They are forced into slavery.
(d) They are whipped.

4. How is this carried out?
(a) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(b) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(c) Building very grand houses.
(d) Sending out patrols into the bush.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?

2. Why was Jiigalong established?

3. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

4. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

5. What does Captain Fremantle want?

(see the answer key)

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