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

2. When Golda spears one of the cattle, what happens to him?
(a) He is captured and taken away by the white men.
(b) He is captured and whipped by the white men.
(c) He is shot dead by the white men.
(d) He is kicked and killed by the panicked animal.

3. Who does Miss Campbell hand the girls over to when they reach the Moore River School?
(a) Polly Martin.
(b) Martha Jones.
(c) Miss Evans.
(d) The caretaker.

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

5. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?
(a) They are an embarrassment.
(b) They are not getting a fair chance.
(c) They eat too much food.
(d) It is degrading for them to run around with the darker skinned children.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

2. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

3. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

4. How many wives does Kundilla have?

5. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?

(see the answer key)

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