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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 does Arthur Carberry hope to achieve in Australia?
(a) He wants to send money home to his sick mother.
(b) He wants to find good land and become rich.
(c) He wants to join the army.
(d) He wants to find an Aboriginal to be his slave.

2. What will actually happen to them?
(a) They will be kept in a settlement for half-caste girls for the rest of their lives.
(b) They will be sent further away from their families to work on dairy farms.
(c) They will be sent to work as servants in England.
(d) They will be imprisoned.

3. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?
(a) New England.
(b) Western Australia.
(c) Perth.
(d) Northern Australia.

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

5. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?
(a) That the white men are human beings and not spirits.
(b) How to use guns.
(c) That all their beliefs are false.
(d) A secret hiding place from the white men.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?

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

3. What were the new settlers advised to do?

4. Where is Maude's baby born?

5. What do the girls see as they come into the harbor, that makes them homesick?

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