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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. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.
(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 join the army.

2. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?
(a) 1800s.
(b) 1500s.
(c) 1900s.
(d) 1200s.

3. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?
(a) Constable Riggs.
(b) Captain Freeman.
(c) Captain James Stirling.
(d) Arthur Carberry.

4. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.
(b) That they will take away the women.
(c) That they will anger the spirits.
(d) That they will take their land.

5. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?
(a) Trying to find a new home.
(b) Looking for lost treasure.
(c) Sealing and whaling.
(d) Capturing Aboriginals to sell as slaves.

Short Answer Questions

1. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?

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

3. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

4. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?

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

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