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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. Who is the father of Maude's child?
(a) The Superintendent, Mr. Keeling.
(b) Protector of Aborigines, Constable Riggs.
(c) Her 'bilgur' (her betrothed).
(d) An inspector of the fence, Thomas Craig.

2. The girls are then handed over again, this time to Constable Pollett. How do they travel to Port Headland?
(a) They walk.
(b) By boat.
(c) By train.
(d) By car.

3. Why are the Aboriginals upset that they are being tried under English law?
(a) Because their own laws and customs are not being respected.
(b) Because the English people have no right to be there.
(c) Because they would rather be tried under French law.
(d) Because their gods will be angry.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Constable Riggs hand the girls over to here?

2. Why do the clans gather to set fire to areas of the brush?

3. What is the Canning Stock Route?

4. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?

(see the answer key)

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