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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 are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will have to work for the white people.
(b) That the white people will declare war on them.
(c) That they will be driven from their lands.
(d) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.

2. Who does the captain hand the girls over to, to be looked after during the voyage?
(a) Gwen Campbell, the stewardess.
(b) Raymond Baxter, a sailor.
(c) Mimi-Ali, an injured Aborigine woman.
(d) George Johnson, a crewmember.

3. How many wives does Kundilla have?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Four.
(d) Ten.

4. What does the crewman teach them?
(a) How to sail a ship.
(b) To speak better English, so they will get on better at the settlement.
(c) How to find the Southern Cross, a star constellation that can guide them if they are lost.
(d) How to mend their clothes and shoes.

5. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?
(a) They make it the gathering place for all the tribes.
(b) They chase out all the white people and claim it for themselves.
(c) They build permanent houses.
(d) Sacred objects are brought and buried there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the new settlers advised to do?

2. What is a wuungku?

3. What excuse does Molly give so that the three of them can stay behind when the other girls head out for school?

4. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?

5. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?

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