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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 Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(b) Gunfire.
(c) A ship's horn.
(d) Roars of dangerous animals.

2. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?
(a) They were the first laws in Australia before the white people came.
(b) They were passed down by the Dreamtime spirit beings.
(c) They have been around for a very long time.
(d) They were established by the king of the Aboriginals.

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

4. What are the white men compared to?
(a) A terrible storm.
(b) Stampeding herds.
(c) Bush fires out of control.
(d) Flesh eating spirits.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

2. How long is the military outpost there for?

3. How do they justify this?

4. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

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

(see the answer key)

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