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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. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) The Aboriginal men fight them off.
(b) There is a large storm coming.
(c) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(d) They do not have enough food.

2. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Captain Fremantle.
(d) Major Edmund Lockyer.

3. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To drive off the white men.
(b) To clear an area to build houses on.
(c) For a religious ritual.
(d) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.

4. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(b) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(c) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.
(d) He wants their permission to name the area.

5. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They offered them poisoned food.
(b) They pretended to be gods.
(c) They told them there was good land further down the coast.
(d) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?

3. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

4. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

5. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

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