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

2. How does Dayup know that Captain Fremantle must be important?
(a) Because the other men salute him.
(b) Because he is wearing a uniform.
(c) Because they recognize his picture from the newspaper.
(d) Because he tells them he is in charge.

3. How do the Mardudjara people interact with the white station owners?
(a) They steal food from them.
(b) They are captured and used as slaves by the white men.
(c) They trade animal skins for food and tobacco.
(d) They train as stockmen and domestic help.

4. Why are the Aboriginal people forced to accept the white men's system of justice and punishment?
(a) They don't believe in violence.
(b) The Queen tells them to.
(c) The white men have superior weapons.
(d) They believe that the white men are right.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Molly's plan?

2. Why does Mr. Keeling advise the Department of Native Affairs that the half-caste children should be removed from Jigalong?

3. What excuse does Molly give so that the three of them can stay behind when the other girls head out for school?

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

5. Why did the first white invaders come in the first place?

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