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

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

3. How does the grandmother protect the new baby from any evil spirits nearby?
(a) She sprinkles water on the baby.
(b) She covers the baby in a special salve.
(c) She places a protective amulet around the baby's neck.
(d) She insults the baby.

4. How do the white workers react to the violence?
(a) They kill some of the Mardudjara people in their sleep.
(b) They leave.
(c) They report the Mardudjara people to the authorities.
(d) They take more of the Mardudjara land as compensation.

5. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?
(a) To fight white men.
(b) To gather firewood.
(c) To become men.
(d) To find a new clan to join.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

3. What were the new settlers advised to do?

4. What happens at the big meeting held during the holidays at the end of the year?

5. When did the first European settlers arrive in Western Australia?

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