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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. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?
(a) Become servants to white men and women.
(b) Become Christian.
(c) Declare war on England.
(d) Run away into the desert.

2. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Horses.
(b) Lions.
(c) Foxes.
(d) Mice.

3. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(b) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(c) Because their gods will be angry.
(d) Because they would rather be tried under French law.

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

5. What flag do the soldiers raise on the shore?
(a) The Union Jack (the British flag).
(b) The Stars and Stripes (the American flag).
(c) The Flag of Australia.
(d) The Jolly Roger (a pirate flag).

Short Answer Questions

1. How are black servants paid?

2. What punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?

3. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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