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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) Captain Freeman.
(b) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(c) Captain Fremantle.
(d) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.

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

3. How does Captain Fremantle try to communicate when he realizes they don't understand him?
(a) He tries to use sign language.
(b) He draws pictures in the sand.
(c) He gets a translator.
(d) He writes it down instead.

4. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?
(a) They told them there was good land further down the coast.
(b) They offered to take them to an island, then left them there.
(c) They pretended to be gods.
(d) They offered them poisoned food.

5. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?
(a) They do not have enough food.
(b) The Aboriginal men fight them off.
(c) Isolation and lack of weapons make them vulnerable.
(d) There is a large storm coming.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?

3. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?

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

5. How long is the military outpost there for?

(see the answer key)

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