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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. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In small mud huts.
(b) In brick houses.
(c) In widened-out rabbit burrows.
(d) In shelters made from branches and bark.

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

3. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Guns.
(b) Sticks.
(c) Spears.
(d) Swords.

4. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?
(a) To drive off the white men.
(b) To clear an area to build houses on.
(c) For a religious ritual.
(d) To flush out animals, which are caught and eaten.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

2. Who is Yellagonga?

3. What does Captain Fremantle want?

4. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

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