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

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

3. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(b) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(c) They have been around for a very long time.
(d) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.

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

5. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(b) A ship's horn.
(c) Gunfire.
(d) Roars of dangerous animals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

2. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?

3. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?

4. How do the settlers allocate land?

5. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?

(see the answer key)

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