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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. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To fight white men.
(b) To become men.
(c) To find a new clan to join.
(d) To gather firewood.

2. How do the white workers react to the violence?
(a) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.
(b) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.
(c) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(d) They leave.

3. What is the punishment for running away?
(a) They are locked away from the other children permanently.
(b) They are not allowed meat for a month.
(c) They are branded with a mark that identifies them as runaways.
(d) Their heads are shaved and they are whipped.

4. How do Maude's family feel about their new boss, the maintenance inspector?
(a) He is cruel and they hate him.
(b) They think he is funny and they often mock him.
(c) They like him and invite him to share meals.
(d) They do not understand him.

5. When the girls meet a man on a bike while walking along the fence, what does the man do?
(a) Chases them away from the fence.
(b) Captures them and calls the police.
(c) Gives them food, then reports that he saw them.
(d) Ignores their pleas for food and rides away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dora show the children how to make?

2. What precautions do the girls take when they think that their pursuers are close on their trail?

3. Who does the captain hand the girls over to, to be looked after during the voyage?

4. Who names the baby Molly?

5. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?

(see the answer key)

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