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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. How do the Aboriginals cut their meat?
(a) With sharp stones.
(b) With knives and forks.
(c) With bears' teeth.
(d) With their teeth.

2. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.
(c) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(d) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.

3. What is the name of Captain Fremantle's gunboat?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Koolinda.
(c) Challenger.
(d) Amity.

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

5. What is a wuungku?
(a) A dress.
(b) A type of weapon.
(c) A ceremonial headdress.
(d) A shelter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?

2. What does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?

3. How do they justify this?

4. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?

5. As they go through the city, what suddenly frightens the girls?

(see the answer key)

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