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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6: The Journey South.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(b) A secret hiding place from the white men.
(c) How to use guns.
(d) That all their beliefs are false.

2. How does the Superintendent feel about the baby?
(a) He is angry with Maude.
(b) He is embarrassed that she was born at his station.
(c) He says nice things.
(d) He thinks she is disgusting.

3. Who names the baby Molly?
(a) The baby's grandmother.
(b) The father.
(c) Maude's father.
(d) Maude.

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

5. What does the crewman teach them?
(a) To speak better English, so they will get on better at the settlement.
(b) How to find the Southern Cross, a star constellation that can guide them if they are lost.
(c) How to sail a ship.
(d) How to mend their clothes and shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

2. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

3. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?

4. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?

5. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

(see the answer key)

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