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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 does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because the other men salute him.
(b) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(c) Because he tells them he is in charge.
(d) Because he is wearing a uniform.

2. How do the Mardudjara people feel about their work?
(a) They are angered by it, and plot revenge.
(b) They do not understand it and often do a bad job.
(c) They see it as a form of kindness.
(d) They see it as exploitation.

3. How do they justify this?
(a) The white people are evil.
(b) The food should be shared.
(c) They will die if they do not.
(d) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.

4. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?
(a) Take the white women hostage.
(b) Move the whole tribe away into the desert.
(c) Kill all the white people.
(d) Take one of the white people's sheep.

5. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?
(a) The white people steal their food and possessions.
(b) They are forced to work as slaves.
(c) Violence, sexual exploitation, and loss of lands.
(d) Hunger and disease.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dora show the children how to make?

3. What do the Aboriginals have to do to survive?

4. Who was supposed to establish this first colony?

5. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

(see the answer key)

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