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

2. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Flesh eating monsters.
(b) Mighty kings.
(c) Gods.
(d) Spirits of the ancestors.

3. 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.

4. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Take as much land as possible.
(b) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.
(c) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(d) Keep up their Englishness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In chapter one, who is the first person mentioned in the book?

2. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

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

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

5. What kind of weather is it always successful to hunt in?

(see the answer key)

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