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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. When are the girls allowed sheets on their beds?
(a) Only if they have been well behaved.
(b) Only on very cold nights.
(c) Only when special visitors come.
(d) The beds always have sheets.

2. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?
(a) He is kicked and killed by the panicked animal.
(b) He is captured and whipped by the white men.
(c) He is captured and taken away by the white men.
(d) He is shot dead by the white men.

3. As they go through the city, what suddenly frightens the girls?
(a) A gunshot.
(b) A church bell.
(c) A tram.
(d) A ship's horn.

4. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) The Queen tells them to.
(b) They don't believe in violence.
(c) They believe that the white men are right.
(d) The white men have superior weapons.

5. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?
(a) They will carry on with education and go to university.
(b) They will get a job on a station near their families.
(c) They will marry rich white men.
(d) They will be given jobs at a school in the city.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

2. Why is Molly confident that the tracker will not be able to follow them?

3. What do a group of Aborigine men give the girls?

4. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?

5. What is the Mardudjara?

(see the answer key)

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