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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8: The Escape.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The girls meet two other half-caste girls, called Eva and Nora. What do these two girls think will happen to them soon?
(a) They will get a job on a station near their families.
(b) They will carry on with education and go to university.
(c) They will marry rich white men.
(d) They will be given jobs at a school in the city.

2. How does the sight of the large river make Molly feel?
(a) Like a stranger in this part of the country.
(b) Trapped, like a prisoner.
(c) Afraid, because she has never seen anything like it.
(d) Happy to be out among nature again.

3. What is the Canning Stock Route?
(a) A long line of wells stretching across the desert.
(b) A trade route.
(c) A railway.
(d) A trail used for transporting prisoners.

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

5. What do the girls want to ask him, but do not dare?
(a) Whether there are black people in other places in the world.
(b) Why the white people came to Australia in the first place.
(c) Where they are being taken and what will happen to them.
(d) Whether the slaves who built the pyramids were like them, or like the white men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a wuungku?

3. How do the settlers allocate land?

4. Why are teenage boys sent out into the Law?

5. What did the Aboriginal people discover too late?

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