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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. Why did some Mardudjara people react violently to white construction workers?
(a) The workers burned down large areas of brush to build on.
(b) The workers refused to share their food.
(c) The workers killed a Mardudjara tribe on the site.
(d) The workers dug up a sacred site.

2. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In shelters made from branches and bark.
(b) In small mud huts.
(c) In brick houses.
(d) In widened-out rabbit burrows.

3. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(b) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(c) Because their gods will be angry.
(d) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.

4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
(a) Stealing all of the cattle.
(b) Taking one of the cattle.
(c) Killing all of the cattle.
(d) Killing the white men.

5. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?
(a) Spears.
(b) Guns.
(c) Sticks.
(d) Swords.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?

3. How do they justify this?

4. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?

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

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