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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 strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?
(a) A stranger arrives.
(b) One of the clan goes missing.
(c) A loud boom.
(d) A bad storm.

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

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(b) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(c) Animals attacking their camp.
(d) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.

4. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
(a) Their mothers.
(b) The boys themselves.
(c) The tribal elders.
(d) Their fathers.

5. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) That all their beliefs are false.
(d) How to use guns.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

2. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

3. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

4. How long is the military outpost there for?

5. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

(see the answer key)

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