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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 did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Jigalong.
(b) Perth.
(c) Swan River Colony.
(d) Moore River Settlement.

2. Why can't Bidgup and Meedo use their usual hunting trails?
(a) There are houses built on them.
(b) All the animals have been frightened away.
(c) The white people have made hunting illegal.
(d) They are blocked by fences.

3. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To become men.
(b) To fight white men.
(c) To find a new clan to join.
(d) To gather firewood.

4. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With their teeth.
(b) With sharp stones.
(c) With knives and forks.
(d) With bears' teeth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

2. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?

3. What are the white men compared to?

4. What does Captain Fremantle want?

5. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?

(see the answer key)

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