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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.
(b) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(c) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(d) Hide their babies in animal skins.

2. How are black servants paid?
(a) With rice.
(b) They are not paid with anything.
(c) With warm blankets.
(d) With money.

3. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That the white people will declare war on them.
(b) That they will be driven from their lands.
(c) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(d) That they will have to work for the white people.

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

5. What are the girls told they are not allowed to do at the school?
(a) Speak their own language.
(b) Have lessons together.
(c) Play games.
(d) Worship their own gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the white construction workers doing?

2. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?

3. Who does Miss Campbell hand the girls over to when they reach the Moore River School?

4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

5. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?

(see the answer key)

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