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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. How are black servants paid?
(a) With warm blankets.
(b) They are not paid with anything.
(c) With money.
(d) With rice.

2. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They believe that the white men are right.
(b) The Queen tells them to.
(c) They don't believe in violence.
(d) The white men have superior weapons.

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

4. How does the Illustrated Melbourne Post say the Aboriginal people reacted to this act of goodwill?
(a) They refused it.
(b) They did not understand.
(c) With gratitude.
(d) They were angry.

5. How is this carried out?
(a) Sending out patrols into the bush.
(b) Taking Aboriginals as servants.
(c) Picnics, fox-hunts and balls.
(d) Building very grand houses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

3. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

4. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

5. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

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