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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 does Dora show the children how to make?
(a) Shoes.
(b) Shelters.
(c) Knives.
(d) Sun-hats.

2. Why does the Protector of Aborigines think there is no point in trying to recapture Molly and Daisy?
(a) They would only keep escaping again, because they know how to survive in the bush.
(b) They obviously think of themselves as black.
(c) They would become violent if forced away from their families again.
(d) They would have to be separated or locked up, and this would be worse than being in the bush.

3. How do they justify this?
(a) The food should be shared.
(b) They will die if they do not.
(c) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.
(d) The white people are evil.

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

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 kicked and killed by the panicked animal.
(d) He is shot dead by the white men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

2. How does Molly's father interact with his child?

3. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?

4. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

5. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?

(see the answer key)

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