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

2. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Mighty kings.
(b) Gods.
(c) Flesh eating monsters.
(d) Spirits of the ancestors.

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

4. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In shelters made from branches and bark.
(b) In brick houses.
(c) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(d) In small mud huts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

2. How do the settlers allocate land?

3. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

4. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

5. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

(see the answer key)

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