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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. Who makes the decision about when teenage boys are ready to go into the Law?
(a) The boys themselves.
(b) The tribal elders.
(c) Their fathers.
(d) Their mothers.

2. What are Bidgup and Meedo worried about?
(a) That they will be driven from their lands.
(b) That the spirits of the ancestors will be angry.
(c) That they will have to work for the white people.
(d) That the white people will declare war on them.

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

4. Why are the women settlers upset?
(a) Because they are afraid of the Aboriginals.
(b) Because the Aboriginals are not wearing clothes.
(c) Because the rain is destroying their possessions.
(d) Because they are hungry.

5. How long had the red desert been the home of the Mardudjara people before they left?
(a) Under 10 years.
(b) 100 years.
(c) Almost 2,000 years.
(d) Over 40,000 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

2. What is established as an act of goodwill on Queen Victoria's birthday?

3. How do the settlers allocate land?

4. How are black servants paid?

5. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

(see the answer key)

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