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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. Where do they spend the night before traveling on to Moore River?
(a) Inside the car.
(b) A hotel in Perth.
(c) The East Perth Girl's Home.
(d) A settlement at Mogumber.

2. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) Perth.
(b) Northern Australia.
(c) Western Australia.
(d) New England.

3. What do the girls see as they come into the harbor, that makes them homesick?
(a) The rabbit-proof fence.
(b) A huge water tank, like those at the depot at Jigalong.
(c) A wheat silo with a picture of a red dingo on it, which they recognize from flour sacks given to Aborigine people at Jigalong.
(d) A food factory with a picture of a yellow chicken on it, which they recognize from food packets given to Aborigine people at Jigalong.

4. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?
(a) Windy: the wind blows the hunters' scent away.
(b) Rain: the tracks are easy to see, and the animals are less alert.
(c) Misty: the animals can't see the hunters coming.
(d) Sunny: it is easier to see and run in sunny weather.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

2. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

3. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

4. What does the author think the girls really saw?

5. How do they justify this?

(see the answer key)

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