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

2. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He wasn't watching where he was going.
(b) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.
(c) He was drunk.
(d) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.

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

4. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?
(a) Because they had received threatening letters from them.
(b) Because they had seen white men fighting from a distance.
(c) Because they were afraid of the strange colour of their skin.
(d) Because white pirates had already killed men and taken women as sex slaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

4. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

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

(see the answer key)

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