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

2. Who is Yellagonga?
(a) A peace-loving tribal leader.
(b) An Aboriginal god.
(c) A powerful spirit ancestor.
(d) A war-loving tribal leader.

3. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They force them to wear clothes.
(b) They make it illegal for them to have children.
(c) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.
(d) They enslave them.

4. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.
(b) That they will anger the spirits.
(c) That they will take their land.
(d) That they will take away the women.

5. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Perth.
(b) Swan River Colony.
(c) Moore River Settlement.
(d) Jigalong.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

2. How is this carried out?

3. What weapons do the Aboriginal men use to hunt with?

4. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

5. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?

(see the answer key)

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