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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 set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Captain Fremantle.
(b) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(c) Captain Freeman.
(d) Major Edmund Lockyer.

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

3. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Horses.
(b) Foxes.
(c) Mice.
(d) Lions.

4. What was the common view of half-caste children at this time?
(a) That they were inferior to the 'pure whites' and 'pure blacks.'
(b) That they were more intelligent than other Aboriginal children.
(c) That they would not love their darker skinned families.
(d) That they were monsters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?

2. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?

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

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

5. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

(see the answer key)

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