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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Decline of Aboriginal Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(b) That the white people will declare war on them.
(c) That they will be driven from their lands.
(d) That they will have to work for the white people.

2. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?
(a) Molly.
(b) Maude.
(c) Kundilla.
(d) Captain Fremantle.

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

4. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
(a) The tribal elders.
(b) Their mothers.
(c) The boys themselves.
(d) Their fathers.

5. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(b) Because their gods will be angry.
(c) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(d) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

2. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

3. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

4. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

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