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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3: The Decline of Aboriginal Society.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) One hundred thousand acres.
(c) Five acres.
(d) One hundred miles.

3. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Mighty kings.
(b) Spirits of the ancestors.
(c) Gods.
(d) Flesh eating monsters.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

2. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

3. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

4. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

5. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?

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