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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. Why does Kundilla conclude that the white soldiers mean them no harm?
(a) The soldiers capture two Aboriginal men but then let them go unharmed.
(b) The soldiers offer them gifts in friendship.
(c) The soldiers are unarmed.
(d) The soldiers tell them they mean no harm.

2. What were the new settlers advised to do?
(a) Shoot all Aboriginals.
(b) Take as much land as possible.
(c) Keep up their Englishness.
(d) Try to destroy Aboriginal culture.

3. Where is Maude's baby born?
(a) At their camp south of Jigalong.
(b) In the hospital at Perth.
(c) In the baby's father's house.
(d) In a hut in Jigalong.

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

5. How do the white men try to break the Aboriginal culture?
(a) They force them to wear clothes.
(b) They enslave them.
(c) They make it illegal for them to have children.
(d) They prevent them from doing their sacred rituals and dances.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Molly's father interact with his child?

2. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?

3. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

4. In what century was the military outpost established on the shores of Western Australia?

5. How do the Aboriginal people make Jigalong a permanent 'sitting down place'?

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