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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 don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.
(b) He is speaking in verse.
(c) He is speaking in his language.
(d) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.

2. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) The Queen tells them to.
(b) They believe that the white men are right.
(c) The white men have superior weapons.
(d) They don't believe in violence.

3. Where do they stop off to hand the sick Aboriginal women over to the hospital?
(a) Port Headland.
(b) Marble Bar.
(c) Fremantle.
(d) Perth.

4. Where does the policeman tell the girls they are going?
(a) He does not tell them where they are going.
(b) To Port Headland to catch a boat south.
(c) To Perth.
(d) To a new home to the south.

5. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?
(a) That the Aborigines would become violent if their children were taken away.
(b) That the half-caste children would be very unhappy if taken away from their families.
(c) That the half-caste children might be dangerous if placed into white society.
(d) That the half-caste children tend more towards black culture than white.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Violet Williams being punished?

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

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

4. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

5. Who is Yellagonga?

(see the answer key)

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