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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 do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?
(a) White men fighting each other on the beach.
(b) White men carrying off Aboriginal women.
(c) White men and women, and their belongings, on the beach.
(d) Animals attacking their camp.

2. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants them to put some clothes on.
(b) He wants their permission to name the area.
(c) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(d) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.

3. What do some mothers choose to do, out of fear that their children will be taken from them?
(a) Hide their babies in animal skins.
(b) Kill the babies' white fathers.
(c) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.
(d) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.

4. What do the group have to do in order to adapt to life with white people?
(a) Learn English.
(b) Wash.
(c) Become Christian.
(d) Put clothes on.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name are the Mardudjara people referred to?

2. Why are the Aboriginals afraid of white men?

3. Where do they stop off to hand the sick Aboriginal women over to the hospital?

4. What does Dora show the children how to make?

5. What strange occurrence shatters the peace of the camp?

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