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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. 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.

2. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Constable Riggs.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Arthur Carberry.
(d) Captain James Stirling.

3. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) How to use guns.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) That all their beliefs are false.
(d) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.

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

5. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is speaking in verse.
(b) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.
(c) He is speaking in his language.
(d) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Captain Fremantle want?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

4. How many wives does Kundilla have?

5. Who is Yellagonga?

(see the answer key)

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