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

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

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

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

5. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because he is wearing a uniform.
(b) Because he tells them he is in charge.
(c) Because the other men salute him.
(d) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

2. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

3. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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