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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 the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(b) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.
(c) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(d) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.

2. On their walk around the grounds, what do they see a group of the children doing near the milking sheds?
(a) Trying to escape.
(b) Stealing extra food.
(c) Playing rounders.
(d) Huddling together for warmth.

3. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?
(a) The workers burned down large areas of brush to build on.
(b) The workers dug up a sacred site.
(c) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.
(d) The workers refused to share their food.

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

5. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(b) They have been around for a very long time.
(c) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.
(d) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the settlers allocate land?

2. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?

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

4. What makes Molly think the dormitory looks like a jail?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

(see the answer key)

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