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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2: The Swan River Colony.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Captain Fremantle.
(d) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.

2. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?
(a) The Flag of Australia.
(b) The Jolly Roger (a pirate flag).
(c) The Stars and Stripes (the American flag).
(d) The Union Jack (the British flag).

3. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?
(a) One of the clan goes missing.
(b) A stranger arrives.
(c) A loud boom.
(d) A bad storm.

4. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.
(b) The soldiers are unarmed.
(c) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.
(d) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.

5. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to join the army.
(b) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(c) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.
(d) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?

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

3. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

4. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

(see the answer key)

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