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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 punishment are Bidgup and Meedo given?
(a) They are forced into slavery.
(b) Imprisonment in a Penal Colony.
(c) They are whipped.
(d) They are hung.

2. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) By boat.
(b) By car.
(c) By train.
(d) They walk.

3. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?
(a) French.
(b) British.
(c) Australian.
(d) American.

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

5. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One hundred thousand acres.
(b) Five acres.
(c) One hundred miles.
(d) One million square miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

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

3. As Australia's farms became more successful, what policy did the government introduce?

4. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?

5. Why are the girls frightened when they get off the boat?

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