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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Koolinda.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Amity.
(d) Challenger.

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

4. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A trade route.
(b) A trail used for transporting prisoners.
(c) A railway.
(d) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.

5. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(b) A train.
(c) White men on a hunting trip.
(d) An army of white men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

2. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?

3. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?

4. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

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

(see the answer key)

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