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

2. How many wives does Kundilla have?
(a) One.
(b) Ten.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(b) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(c) Animals attacking their camp.
(d) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.

4. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) New England.
(b) Western Australia.
(c) Northern Australia.
(d) Perth.

5. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?
(a) The Flag of Australia.
(b) The Union Jack (the British flag).
(c) The Stars and Stripes (the American flag).
(d) The Jolly Roger (a pirate flag).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

3. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?

4. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

5. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

(see the answer key)

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