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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 is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?
(a) Money is given to the Aboriginals.
(b) Aboriginal servants are given a holiday.
(c) All the land is given back to the Aboriginals.
(d) Free blankets are given to the Aboriginals.

2. How long is the military outpost there for?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Two weeks.

3. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become Christian.
(b) Run away into the desert.
(c) Become servants to white men and women.
(d) Declare war on England.

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

5. How do they justify this?
(a) They will die if they do not.
(b) The food should be shared.
(c) The white people are evil.
(d) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

2. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

3. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

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

5. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

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