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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. Who set up a military base to get rid of the pirates?
(a) Major Edmund Lockyer.
(b) Captain Fremantle.
(c) The Chief Protector of Aborigines.
(d) Captain Freeman.

2. In what ways do the Mardudjara people suffer?
(a) They are forced to work as slaves.
(b) The white people steal their food and possessions.
(c) Violence, sexual exploitation, and loss of lands.
(d) Hunger and disease.

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

4. What excuse does Molly give so that the three of them can stay behind when the other girls head out for school?
(a) She pretends that Daisy is sick.
(b) She pretends to still be asleep.
(c) She says they have forgotten their school books, so they have to go back to their room to get them.
(d) She says they need to empty the toilet bucket.

5. The Aboriginals at first believed that the white men were 'gengas.' What are gengas?
(a) Gods.
(b) Spirits of the ancestors.
(c) Mighty kings.
(d) Flesh eating monsters.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Mr. Keeling, the Superintendent at Jigalong depot, write in a letter that was ignored?

3. Why don't the Aboriginals understand what Captain Fremantle is saying?

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

5. What does Captain Fremantle name the area?

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