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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. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?
(a) He is speaking in verse.
(b) He is trying to talk in their language, but getting it wrong.
(c) He is talking about things they have never seen or heard of.
(d) He is speaking in his language.

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

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

4. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Take one of the white people's sheep.
(b) Take the white women hostage.
(c) Kill all the white people.
(d) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the first white invaders trick the Aboriginal men?

2. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

3. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?

4. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

5. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?

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