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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 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) Leave Jigalong forever to go back into the desert.
(d) Give birth in the bush rather than hospitals.

2. What do Yalbung and Beeboo hear when they are hunting near the river?
(a) Gunfire.
(b) A ship's horn.
(c) Men's voices and cries of frightened women.
(d) Roars of dangerous animals.

3. When they discover the white men, what is the Aboriginal men's first fear?
(a) That they will take away the women.
(b) That they will try to kill all the Aboriginals in the camp.
(c) That they will anger the spirits.
(d) That they will take their land.

4. What do Dora's clan see coming through the desert?
(a) An army of white men.
(b) White men on a hunting trip.
(c) White men droving a large herd of cattle.
(d) A train.

5. Why did the Captain crash the ship?
(a) He was drunk.
(b) He wasn't watching where he was going.
(c) He saw the Aboriginals and thought they would make good servants.
(d) He was shocked by the sight of Captain Fremantle's boat already in the estuary.

Short Answer Questions

1. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?

2. What happens when Udja complains to a white magistrate that his wife has been stolen by a white man?

3. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?

4. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?

5. Why are the Aboriginal laws important to them?

(see the answer key)

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