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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) Maude.
(b) The father.
(c) Maude's father.
(d) The baby's grandmother.

2. How do Molly and Gracie's family express their sorrow when the girls are taken?
(a) Refuse to eat.
(b) Cut off all their hair.
(c) Cut themselves with sharp objects.
(d) Take some of the white children in retaliation.

3. What did Captain Fremantle name the colony?
(a) Perth.
(b) Moore River Settlement.
(c) Jigalong.
(d) Swan River Colony.

4. What does Dora's father Lubin suggest?
(a) Taking one of the cattle.
(b) Killing all of the cattle.
(c) Stealing all of the cattle.
(d) Killing the white men.

5. Why is Jigalong appealing to the Aborigines?
(a) Food, and safety from the white people.
(b) They will be able to live in houses rather than stick shelters.
(c) No guns are allowed in the settlement.
(d) It is a place where they can learn English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the captain of the Koolinda, the ship that will take them south to Fremantle?

2. How do they justify this?

3. Why do the soldiers abandon the military outpost?

4. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?

(see the answer key)

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